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Singer Aled Jones remembers Snowman creator Raymond Briggs following his death

The author’s 1978 book The Snowman was adapted into an animated film that has become a festive staple.

The Independent UK

Homophobia might be less prevalent today - but only so long as you're the 'right' kind of gay | Joe Ali

"It doesn't take a genius or historian to understand what linking grooming and sexualising children to LGBT+ people means"

Wales Online

Review: 'The Women Could Fly,' by Megan Giddings

FICTION: Megan Giddings turns the wilds of the Upper Peninsula into a land where magic and oppression exist side-by-side.

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James Welch Native Lit Festival brings acclaimed Indigenous writers together

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain read James Welch's "Winter in the Blood" for the first time more than 10 years ago, but he remembers the impact it had on him so vividly that it's as though he finished the novel yesterday.

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Farewell Transmission,' by Will McGrath

NONFICTION: In "Farewell Transmission," Will McGrath offers globetrotting essays on obscure lives and furtive vocations, alerting readers to secrets without and within.

Tribune News Service

Manhattan Project, a decade of inspiration led to Pa. native's first novel

PITTSBURGH — The idea for Sarah James' debut novel had been around in one form or another since she was 19. All it took was more than a decade to gestate into something tangible.

Tribune News Service

Hollywood publicist Dan Harary talks 50 years of celebrity encounters in new memoir

Dan Harary’s life has been filled with celebrity encounters.

The Orange County Register

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Snowman creator Raymond Briggs brought kindness and generosity to his work

Briggs recalled his inspiration for the tale about a snowman who comes to life came during a winter of particularly heavy snowfall.

The Independent UK

The Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88

The award winning author and illustrator of The Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas died on Tuesday morning

Liverpool Echo

British children’s authors pay tribute to ‘fantastic’ Raymond Briggs

The influential writer and illustrator has died at the age of 88.

The Independent UK

Share your tributes and memories of Snowman author Raymond Briggs

The writer and illustrator Raymond Briggs has died aged 88. Share your tributes here

The Guardian - UK

Commissioner of Police V Balakrishnan’s first book ‘Travel Tales of a Cop’ launched at the Coimbatore Book Festival

Commissioner of Police V Balakrishnan’s first book Travel Tales of a Cop launched at the Coimbatore Book Festival is a comparison of policing systems in the UK and India

The Hindu

Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins stops show to deliver sad breaking news

Charlotte Hawkins halted Wednesday's Good Morning Britain to deliver the sad news to ITV viewers at home

Chronicle Live

Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator of beloved classic The Snowman, dies aged 88

'Raymond's books were loved by and touched millions of people around the world', his family said in a statement

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The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Dark Music by David Lagercrantz and Peter Rabbit: Hide And Seek! by Rachel Bright.

Reuters

Raymond Briggs, creator of beloved children's tale 'The Snowman', dies aged 88

Raymond Briggs, creator of the bittersweet children's book "The Snowman", has died aged 88, his family announced on Wednesday.

Daily Record

The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 as devastated family pay tribute

Raymond Briggs, the author and illustrator behind the 1978 classic The Snowman, passed away on Tuesday morning, his family has announced.

The National (Scotland)

The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs dies at the age of 88

AUTHOR and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for 1978 classic The Snowman, has died aged 88.

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Evening Standard

Raymond Briggs: The Snowman author dies, aged 88

Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for 1978 classic The Snowman, has died aged 88.

The Independent UK

The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs dies aged 88

He was also behind beloved children’s books Father Christmas and Fungus The Bogeyman.

The Independent UK

Raymond Briggs death: The Snowman creator dies, aged 88

Writer and illustrator was described as an ‘iconoclastic national treasure’

The Guardian - UK

Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88

Beloved creator of Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas brought a distinctive strain of melancholy to the genre

Wales Online

Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman, has died - aged 88

"He lived a rich and full life, and said he felt lucky"

Daily Mirror

The Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 as heartbroken family pay tribute

Raymond Briggs, the author and illustrator behind the 1978 classic The Snowman, passed away on Tuesday morning, his family announced

Bangkok Post

How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history

On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as…

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