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Meghan Markle 'embarassed' at believing Harry memoir would 'heighten celebrity status'

Prince Harry released his explosive debut memoir Spare last month, in which he discussed losing his virginity, allegedly taking drugs and his wife Meghan Markle

Daily Mirror

First Minister announced as special guest at Paisley Book Festival

Nicola Sturgeon will be returning to the festival to speak with award-winning journalist and author, Chitra Ramaswamy.

Daily Record

Military justice reforms fall short

Congress overhauled the system — but experts say they may have just made it more complicated

Salon

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Commentary: Time's up. The art of making a better exit

A lot of people I know are reading and chatting about a book with a very blunt title that was written by a wise 89-year-old woman from Sweden.

Tribune News Service

Kenneth Noye: M25 road rage killer tells victim’s partner he poses ‘no danger to her’

Noye claims that his victim’s partner, who went into witness protection after giving evidence against him, ‘is at no risk from me’

Evening Standard

St Valentine has nothing to do with love or romance and the day was just made up

Poets have created the story that inspired Valentine's Day

Wales Online

A Small Town in Ukraine by Bernard Wasserstein review – on the border and at the centre of history

In this touching account, the author traces his ancestors’ terrible ordeal while living in an ‘insignificant place’ that became a battleground for more than a century of conflicts

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'Nervous' dad took matters into his own hands when son struggled to speak

Robbie Blackhurst said he was "heartbroken" to see his six-year-old struggle

Liverpool Echo

‘Having it all’ is a myth still being used to punish working mothers

I’m not sure who decided women want it all. And even if some do, who has decided what ‘all’ is?

The Guardian - AU

Republican senator Tim Scott preparing presidential run – report

Only Black Republican in Senate set to challenge Donald Trump for nomination, Wall Street Journal says

The Guardian - US

Romance novelist who trademarked the word ‘cocky’ goes missing after police chase

Faleena Hopkins has been reported missing following arrest in late January

The Independent UK

Love languages are hugely popular – but there's very little evidence they exist at all

Love languages – the concept coined by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman some 30 years ago – has taken the relationships world by storm. It’s often the “go-to” topic on first dates, and for those in relationships love languages are said to provide deep, meaningful and reliable insights into how relationships…

The Conversation

Popular novelist and broadcaster Deirdre Purcell dies at 77

Warm tributes have been expressed to the best selling author and broadcaster, who died at 77

Irish Mirror

World’s Youngest Published Author Releases Second Book

At age 5, a young girl became the youngest published author in history.

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When Kevin's daughter, novelist Kath O'Connor, died, the family weren't silent about their loss

Both women shared a mutated gene and died from the same disease in their 40s, but Kevin wanted to change the way death and grief were experienced by his family.

The Guardian - UK

Anne Harvey obituary

Other lives: Writer and teacher who produced literary anthologies for various publishers

The Independent UK

Camilla tests positive for Covid after suffering from cold symptoms, Palace confirms

The Queen Consort also caught the virus last February and has been forced to cancel royal visit

The Guardian - UK

Georgina Hammick obituary

Poet and writer whose protagonists are often women comically uncomfortable inside outdated traditions of femininity

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The Conversation

Valentine’s Day’s connection with love was probably invented by Chaucer and other 14th-century poets

As an undergraduate, on a tour of Europe, I happened to step into the church where Saint Valentine’s head was kept. The tour guide told us a (likely fictitious) story about Saint Valentine performing forbidden marriages for persecuted Christians under the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus (possibly 269-270 AD). Valentine was…

Newsroom.co.nz

Last week's bestsellers

We usually run the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list on Fridays but replaced it with a review of Birnam Wood

Reason

The Shameless Attack on a Climate Change Dissenter

We couldn't find any negative review of physicist Steven Koonin's Unsettled that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately.

Nottingham Post

Nottingham betting shop staff member spat on in 'disgusting' assault

The suspect also grabbed a stool -as if he planned to throw it towards or use it to hit the staff member

The National (Scotland)

Feminist writer Roxane Gay announces first live show in Scotland

Feminist author and cultural critic Roxane Gay has announced her first-ever live show in Scotland.

The Times of India

‘Best works ignored, women writers never got proper literary assessment’

It was a riot of words, laughter and a little bit of male bashing as writers Rakhshanda Jalil, Mridula Garg and Swapna Liddle came together for the session — Delhi and women writers down the years: How writing changed — moderated by Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr at Times Litfest 2023.

Evening Standard

Millionaire at 26: how Jessica George’s new novel Maame became the hottest debut of 2023

The 28-year-old’s fictional tale sold for seven figures, is a New York Times bestseller and is already being turned into a TV series set in London, with comparison to Candice Carty-Williams’ novel Queenie. Katie Strick meets her

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