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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

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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.

Zenger

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.

ABC News

Anne Harvey obituary

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

The Guardian - 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 Independent UK

Georgina Hammick obituary

Poet and writer whose protagonists are often women comically uncomfortable inside outdated traditions of femininity

The Guardian - UK

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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

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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

The Times of India

Why short story market has remained stunted in India

Indian parents want “soft, pre-digested, danger-free” stories for their children and “if there is an idea in it, they don’t like it”, said author Jerry Pinto while talking about why short fiction in the children’s section hasn’t caught on, at a session titled “The Power of a Short Story”.

The Times of India

Moestl tells you how to win without fighting

Become that strong that people lose interest in fighting you.” Though the words fell easy from Bernhard Moestl, Shaolin instructor and management coach, there was little doubt of the steep road that must be travelled to reach the point.

The Times of India

Beyond curry houses and butter chicken

Is Indian food the next big thing on the global palate? Have patrons gone beyond demanding chicken tikka masala in culinary hotspots like London and New York? “Yes, people still want butter chicken even though it is changing,” said food writer Karen Anand with a sigh at Times Litfest, in…

The Times of India

‘Subcontinent yet to learn Partition lessons’

None of the countries in the Indian subcontinent are at peace today and lessons from the Partition are yet to be learned, author and historian Aanchal Malhotra said at the Times Litfest.

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