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Percival Everett's 'James' awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction

Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries

The Independent UK

‘Forgotten’ sites linked to Jane Austen feature in new Hampshire trails

Villagers in Overton have set up walking and cycling routes taking in places author would have known

The Guardian - UK

Dealing With the Dead by Alain Mabanckou review – surreal murder mystery in Congo-Brazzaville

A picaresque tale blends ghosts and ghouls with political satire and a scathing attack on corruption

The Guardian - UK

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The big picture: a gaggle of visitors gather beneath London’s Shard

Photographer Andy Hall’s atmospheric new series captures the capital’s eerie financial heart

The Guardian - UK

20 year wait for theatrical production of top novel 'worth it', author says

IT’S been almost 20 years coming to fruition but author James Robertson believes the wait for a theatrical production of one of his best-selling…

The National (Scotland)

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The Guardian - UK

Gill Hornby: ‘Jane Austen created the six best novels in the English language’

The writer on her third novel, Miss Austen, being turned into a TV drama, what we get wrong about the much-loved author – and why she would never write a book with her husband, Robert Harris

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Neil Gaiman comic series cancelled following sexual assault allegations

Gaiman has been accused of assault by several women

The Independent UK

Washed-up Brits, local lowlifes and a Kray twin’s lighter: noir novel Spanish Beauty shines fond light on Benidorm

Recently published in English for the first time, Esther García Llovet’s story pays tribute to the resort regarded by many as ‘the worst place in Spain’

The Guardian - UK

How Toni Morrison’s characters modeled womanhood and confinement in their dress

How people dress – their bodies, their communities, their houses – mattered a great deal to the Nobel prize winner

The Guardian - US

'Yes, Queen!' Fans gather at The Town Hall in Manhattan to cheer on author Rebecca Yarros

Friday night at The Town Hall had the feel of a costume party, rock concert and family reunion as a capacity crowd of around 1,500 clapped, laughed and shouted, “Yes queen!”

The Independent UK

We show we’re human when we put pen to paper

Letters: Students of literature in future will have far less to go on if handwriting becomes obsolete, writes Dr Claire Nicholson. Plus letters from Michael Daley, Alan Sekers, Alan Gough, Dr Emile de Sousa and Marie Paterson

The Guardian - UK

The pope’s memoir, Oscar nominees and a mafia exhibition – what to read, see and do this week

I finally got round to watching Conclave last week. Two hours of Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini in Oscar-nominated performances alongside Lucian Msamati and a stray papal turtle. The scandals. The tension. The outfits (also nominated). A sublime experience.

The Conversation

Charlotte Raven obituary

Editor of the Modern Review and Guardian columnist who later chronicled her experience of Huntington’s disease

The Guardian - UK

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Run Away: cast, plot and everything we know about the next Harlan Coben adaptation

Run Away is the next Harlan Coben adaptation to land on Netflix with James Nesbitt playing a father whose daughter goes missing.

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of romantasy fans make midnight dates with new Rebecca Yarros novel

Bookshops staged late-night parties – with fancy dress, quizzes and cakes – to launch the third instalment of novelist’s Empyrean series, Onyx Storm

The Walrus

The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction

Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window

The Walrus

Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

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'Children of Blood and Bone' Movie: Everything We Know About the Cast and Release Date

You won't believe how many A-listers have joined the cast of this book-to-screen adaptation.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Longley, prize-winning poet of ‘griefs and wonders’, dies aged 85

Part of a gifted generation of writers from Northern Ireland, Longley also gave years of service to the province’s arts council

The Guardian - UK

Michael Longley obituary

Belfast poet of exceptional poise and eloquence – but with a sardonic streak to temper his technical accomplishment

The National (Scotland)

Dozens of jobs at risk as DC Thomson to stop publishing four magazines

A SCOTTISH publisher is considering closing four magazines with 35 jobs at risk of redundancy only weeks after announcing tens of millions in…

The Guardian - AU

Unfinished Business by Shankari Chandran review – page-turning political thriller from Miles Franklin winner

The award-winning author has hit a more commercial note with this nuanced thriller about a CIA agent investigating the assassination of a journalist in Sri Lanka

The Guardian - UK

‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub

He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book celebrates his extraordinary life

The Guardian - UK

The Grammar of Angels by Edward Wilson-Lee review – spellbound

The short, blazing life of Italian philosopher Pico della Mirandola

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