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Sales of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights skyrocket ahead of film adaptation

The number of novels sold rose nearly fivefold year on year in the UK in January, Penguin Classics reports, as Emerald Fennell’s hotly anticipated take is set for release next week

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How to watch Lord of The Flies from anywhere - stream the new BBC adaptation online

It's the first time the classic novel has been adapted for the small screen, and you can tune in from anywhere in the world

Woman & Home

Kathy Lette, mum rage and a cursed vagina: the best Australian books out in February

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko

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Nussaibah Younis: ‘The Bell Jar helped me through my own mental illness’

The author on taking solace in Joan Didion, discovering Donna Tartt and being cheered up by David Sedaris

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Jean by Madeleine Dunnigan review – sex and teenage secrets

Queer self-discovery drives this powerful coming-of-age debut set in a bohemian 1970s school

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Magic Beach by Alison Lester named Australia’s best children’s picture book

Lester’s 1990 classic about the wonders of nature wins Guardian Australia poll ahead of Possum Magic in second place

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Rick Riordan Responded After A Fan Of The Percy Jackson Books Shared Why They Have 'Very Mixed Feelings' About The Disney+ Series

The bestselling author gets honest about the TV adaptation.

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51 Terrible Book Covers That You Can’t Help But Judge (New Pics)

They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The internet disagrees! Some cover designs are so terrible, so ridiculously nonsensical, that they’re actually entertaining. It’s any person with taste’s duty to make fun of them. ‘Terrible Book Covers’ is one of the most fun niches on the…

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Bugger by Michael Mohammed Ahmad review – tender, unflinching and difficult to read

The author’s fourth novel offers a devastating day in the life of a 10-year-old boy who cannot be kept safe

The Guardian - AU

Gossip Girl author to bring back fan-favorite character in sequel

‘Blair’ will re-introduce readers to Manhattan socialite Blair Walforf in her forties

The Independent UK

70 Years Ago, A Creepy Thriller Spawned An Infamous Sci-Fi Trope

Long after the invasion ended, we all still fear the pod people.

Inverse

Spotify will now sell you books

Music app also launches new feature to let people switch between physical and audiobooks

The Independent UK

Arcadia at the Old Vic review: a fitting tribute to Tom Stoppard's genius

5/5 This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart

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Leaving Home by Mark Haddon review – blistering memoir of a loveless childhood

The Curious Incident author describes the upbringing that shaped him – and for which he can’t help feeling nostalgia

The Independent UK

I’m ready to admit it – Wuthering Heights is an awful, awful book

COMMENT: With a new big-budget film adaptation hitting our screens, the classic 19th-century novel is all anyone can talk about. It’s a shame, then, that it’s such an uncompromisingly terrible read, argues Helen Coffey

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Children’s author becomes first writer shortlisted twice for Waterstones book awards

Welsh writer and illustrator has had two of his books nominated in distinct categories in the prestigious awards

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Steve Lamb obituary

Other lives: German scholar at Warwick University whose focus was culture and politics in the Weimar republic

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Inverse

35 Years Later, A Terrifying Martin Scorsese Classic Is Getting A Massive Update

Apple's 'Cape Fear' remake is taking a big risk with a classic horror story.

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Young ladies too tired to stand at a Black debutante ball: Miranda Barnes’s best photograph

‘The girls wait for two or three hours to be introduced. The reason they’re sitting on the ground is because there weren’t any chairs in the waiting room’

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Allan Massie obituary

Acclaimed novelist and literary critic who was a staunch opponent of Scottish devolution

The Guardian - AU

‘I also like that the dad cries’: children on their favourite Australian picture book of all time

From Jetty Jumping to green sheep, children tell us why they love the books they ask for night after night

Evening Standard

Woman tells inquest she heard two screams on night Noah Donohoe disappeared

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020

The Independent UK

JK Rowling denies inviting Jeffrey Epstein to Harry Potter premiere

‘I never met, communicated with or invited Jeffrey Epstein to anything,’ author said

Newslaundry

‘Cancel culture’: Teltumbde’s session at Kala Ghoda scrapped amid objections from Hindutva accounts

Organisers of Mumbai’s famous Kala Ghoda Arts Festival have cancelled a book discussion featuring scholar and civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde on the orders of the Mumbai Police. Participants of this discussion have also been instructed to delete all social media posts related to the event, according to a report…

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