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The five best fiction books of 2022

In 2022, we saw Annie Ernaux win the Nobel prize for literature for her uncompromising writing about her experiences. Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker prize for his darkly comic Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

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House of the Dragon: deleted scene shows a top-secret Kingsguard ceremony

The sequence was ditched to build momentum for Rhaenyra’s Dragonstone win

Evening Standard

Corruption in South Africa: new book lifts the lid on who profits - and their corporate enablers

The new book The Unaccountables: The Powerful Politicians and Corporations who Profit from Impunity is welcome for the way it contextualises corruption. It shows how politicians and bureaucrats could not implement corruption without their corporate and professional enablers – the accountants, auditors and advocates who make it all possible.

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Christian nationalism's racism problem

Christian podcast host "canceled" over long history of ugly racist tweets as war breaks out on religious right

Salon

Madonna, 64, dons mesh lingerie and a kinky riding crop to re-launch of her Sex book

Like A Virgin hitmaker Madonna, 64, was celebrating the 30th anniversary of her Sex coffee table book which was widely considered controversial but ahead of its time as it sold 1.5 million copies

Daily Mirror

Micro review: 'The Choice' by Nora Roberts

International bestselling author Nora Roberts is back with a new book before 2022 ends. Titled 'The Choice', it is the third and concluding book of the epic Dragon Heart trilogy.

The Times of India

‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly

Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks can immerse one deeper in the writer’s world

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Matt Hancock reveals ‘bonkers plan’ to release prisoners during Covid

Extract of diaries kept by former Health Secretary claims ‘bonkers plan’ was suggested during pandemic

Evening Standard

Netflix's Lady Chatterley's Lover reduces this tale of class conflict to a simple love story

It is easy to understand the appeal of D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) for filmmakers. The issues the novel addresses are so rich. Written in response to the general strike of 1926 in the UK, the story examines the sources of class enmity and imagines how it…

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What the papers say – December 2

Royal family drama again dominates the front pages.

The Independent UK

Do Americans really care about the royals?

An estimated 23 million Americans tuned in for the royal wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales, only for them to be booed at a Boston Celtics game. Meredith Clark writes whether US fascination with the British royal family has come to an end

The Independent UK

Prince Harry banned close friend from wedding after 'concerned' question about Meghan

While Prince Harry's friend in question was invited to the ceremony itself, he was snubbed from the evening reception after he raised concerns over Harry's relationship with Meghan

Daily Mirror

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 26, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

Tribune News Service

Screenshots have generated new forms of storytelling, from Twitter fan fiction to desktop film

Screenshots are as banal as they are ubiquitous. Nowadays, virtually all computer and digital mobile devices can generate a screenshot with a quick pair of key presses. Maybe that’s why they have remained largely underappreciated as a creative practice.

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Marcus Sedgwick obituary

Author whose critically acclaimed books, mostly for children, were told with optimism despite their often dark themes

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This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

The National (Scotland)

Saltire society reveals shortlists for annual publishing industry awards

Shortlists for three writing industry awards have been announced at Scotland’s National Book Awards - including Publisher, Emerging Publisher,…

Irish Mirror

Former RTE journalist jailed for sexually assaulting a woman while she slept fails in appeal

Ó’Leidhin’s lawyers had also submitted that the two-and-a-half year headline sentence identified by the trial judge was too high

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Clyde Chitty obituary

Other lives: Professor in education studies at Goldsmiths University of London and powerful advocate for comprehensive schools

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Bob Cattell obituary

Other lives: Author of the Glory Gardens series of cricket stories for children and founder of a floating bookshop in Greenwich

The Times of India

Shekhar Pathak wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 for 'The Chipko Movement'

Historian, activist and writer Shekhar Pathak has won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 for his book 'The Chipko Movement'. The book was originally written in Hindi and translated into English by Manisha Chaudhry.

The Guardian - UK

What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?

With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?

The National (Scotland)

'Fighting a losing battle': Library launches appeal to save Scotland's newspapers

CENTURIES of Scottish social history could be lost if funding is not found for preservation work, the National Library of Scotland has said.

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Trump-endorsed Miami-Dade commissioner has no business trying to censor book readings

Eager-beaver that he seems to be — at age 8, he already knew he wanted to be a politician — new Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Cabrera is, unfortunately, off to a sour start.

The Times of India

Dr Henry Gee wins the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize

Dr Henry Gee won the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize for his book 'A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters'. Dr. Gee-- who is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and Nature editor-- was announced as the winner at an award ceremony at the…

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