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Kerry Katona says late husband was obsessed with black magic and put spells on her

In her new book Whole Again: Love, Life and Me, Kerry Katona opens up about living with her late husband George Kay, who died in 2019 following a drug overdose

Daily Mirror

Review: The Color Purple at The Lowry Salford

If you want to feel uplifted, inspired and thoroughly entertained then this production won't disappoint

Manchester Evening News

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë and the truth about the 'real-life Heathcliff'

When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. One described it as “a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors”.

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Policy of secrecy leaves authors with ‘no inkling’ works are being set for NSW’s year 12 exams

Delia Falconer and Nikki Gemmell latest writers to find out their works were selected for the HSC – after the exams

The Guardian - AU

George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

The Independent UK

Is Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive based on a true story?

The number one film on the streamer follows Mila Kunis as a writer who experienced a school shooting as a teenager

The Independent UK

Minka Kelly memoir 'Tell Me Everything' coming out May 2023

Minka Kelly wants her fans to know that her life is not just a story of success

The Independent UK

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In praise of middlebrow women's fiction

Catherine Robertson on novels women want to read (and write)

Newsroom.co.nz

Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the 'unauthorized' biography

“The agents of reticence,” wrote the English poet Ian Hamilton in “Keepers of the Flame,” “have no truck with the agents of disclosure.”

The Conversation

Top 10 road novels

Quests across continents, journeys into the past, family holiday disasters or wild dreams of a new life – here are your escape routes

The Guardian - UK

How to read The Wheel of Time books in order

Here's how you can read the Wheel of Time books in order as the fantasy series has landed on Prime Video.

WhatToWatch

Trainspotting Live review – ferocious drama plunges you into world of Irvine Welsh

An exhilarating production shifts Renton, Sick Boy and pals into the acid house era – and is even more visceral than the book

The Guardian - UK

In Celeste Ng's dark new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' libraries shine a light

Celeste Ng wishes she could call it a dystopia. That's how she used to think about the dark world she was crafting in her new novel, "Our Missing Hearts."

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Dinosaurs': A trust-fund orphan tries to do good in a world out of whack, from the finalist for the 2020 National Book Award

I heard Lydia Millet asked once, in an interview, why she'd left the literary world of New York, where she clearly thrived, and she said that it was too easy to be mean there, and she'd rather be nice — or words to that effect. And niceness is not generally…

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The Orange County Register

‘L.A. Weather’ author María Amparo Escandón wants to upend Latino stereotypes

LOS ANGELES -- Never mind these autumn temperatures: Call this the spring of María Amparo Escandón’s novel, “L.A. Weather.”

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Departure Stories': A moving memoir by a Minnesota native about her complicated childhood, and her complicated mother

In the acknowledgments of her thoughtful and moving memoir, "Departure Stories," Elisa Bernick thanks a mentor who counseled her not to turn her story into a novel. Readers, too, will want to thank this person, because the originality of the approach taken here is a big part of the book's…

The Guardian - US

‘Never seen anything like it’: how Colleen Hoover’s normcore thrillers made her America’s bestselling author

‘CoHo’ began as a self-published writer. Now she’s sold 20m books worldwide – and has legions of TikTok fans

The Independent UK

Jared Kushner suggested Kanye West-led ‘healing church service’ at White House after George Floyd killing

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly nixed the idea

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Chicago Sun-Times

Demand soaring for kids’ books addressing gun violence, trauma, grief

Through children’s literature and theater, Ian Ellis James, an Emmy award-winning Sesame Street writer known by his stage name William Electric Black, works to reduce urban gun violence.

Inverse

20 years ago, Mike Flanagan first wrote 'Midnight Club' — and learned a crucial lesson

Though it may not look it, 'The Midnight Club' is older than the "Flanagan-verse."

Irish Mirror

The photo of a real life Garda hero at work that inspired a crime reporter to write a gritty novel set in Dublin

'The photograph was the starting point for the entire story, I always knew I would use it as the basis for a novel,' Michael O’Toole said in an interview to mark the publication of his first novel.

Dublin Live

Charlie Bird to attend Dublin booking signing this weekend as he launches memoir

The veteran broadcaster will host book signings in several Eason stores in the coming days

Daily Mirror

Girl, 8, couldn't find any books with characters like her so she wrote some herself

Tiana Akoh-Arrey struggled to find any books with people who look like her has now written three of her own - and has won praise from fans across the world

The Independent UK

Demand soars for kids' books addressing violence, trauma

As the new school year swings into gear, some students carry heavier worries than keeping up with homework: Demand has been growing steadily for children’s books that address traumatic events such as school shootings

The Independent UK

Is Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive based on a true story?

The number one film on the streamer follows Mila Kunis as a writer who experienced a school shooting as a teenager

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