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Female history and biography writing dominates Baillie Gifford shortlist

A study of the violence of Britain’s empire, Oliver Cromwell’s commonwealth and the present day refugee crisis are among five books by women vying for this year’s £50,000 first prize

The Guardian - UK

Saved from a fate worse than Queensland

A personal essay on rescue

Newsroom.co.nz

Anthony Bourdain biography is a profile of a man spiraling

Biographers try as best they can to walk in the shoes of their subjects

The Independent UK

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‘Were you putting profit before principle?’: Maggie Haberman accused of withholding information on Trump for her book

‘People are willing to say things for history in books that they sometimes are not and to reveal information that they are not for the daily report,’ journalist says

The Independent UK

Luckiest Girl Alive: Is the Netflix movie 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

Tiana, 8, hopes book about her afro hair will inspire others to love themselves

Tiana Akoh-Arrey wrote her first book at the age of seven, called My Afro: Twin Best Friends.

The Independent UK

In brief: Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North; The Book of Phobias and Manias; The Fell – review

A moving end to a dramatic trilogy; the weird and wonderful world of fear; and a suspenseful pandemic novel

The Guardian - UK

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Frances O’Connor: ‘I’m putting Emily Brontë in the centre of her own story’

The actor turned writer-director is taking an unconventional approach to her feature film debut about the Wuthering Heights author

The Guardian - UK

You need to watch the best vampire thriller of the decade on Netflix ASAP

What happens when you throw a vampire onto a teeny-tiny island occupied by fervent Catholics?

Inverse

Graeme Armstrong on learning to love life after The Young Team

AS we meet over a Zoom call, the first thing I notice about Graeme Armstrong is his smile, how contagious and lively it is – just like his debut…

The National (Scotland)

Classic play examines desperation experienced by young adults navigating world

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The National (Scotland)

‘People need to tell stories’: Lviv holds literary festival in defiance of war

Writers at annual book event in Ukrainian city say storytelling and art have helped many endure violence

The Guardian - UK

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece

Hollis brilliantly sifts through the tendrils of TS Eliot’s unhappiness and shows how, with help from friends, he broke through his tortured silence to create an era-defining poem

The Guardian - UK

Scots author Sir Ian Rankin says latest novel was inspired by Met Police scandals

His book A Heart Full Of Headstones centres on a corrupt police station in the west of Edinburgh and sees his former detective in the dock facing charges.

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For the record

Graham Smith | Western Isles | Newmarket | Buckinghamshire New University | Great crested grebe

The Guardian - AU

Hive-mind writing: how two children’s authors brainstormed a book on Twitter

They had never met and lived 3,000km apart, but Zana Fraillon and Bren MacDibble conspired online to write a YA pandemic novel – well before Covid hit

Salon

Will high school "classics" be replaced?

Efforts to diversify the authors of high school canon is facing both backlash and approval

The Independent UK

Lindsey Graham told former police officer that Capitol rioters should be shot in head, new book says

“We gave you guys guns, and you should have used them,” the GOP Senator reportedly told Michael Fanone

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Bangor mum is new co-author in self-help book after suffering childhood trauma

"It is never too late to rewrite the beginning"

The Independent UK

Camilla meets writer Sebastian Faulks at literary festival

The pair were pictured chatting at the event in Braemar on Friday night.

The Guardian - US

‘It’s good to think strategically’: Thomas E Ricks on civil rights and January 6

In his new book, the historian considers the work of Martin Luther King and others through the lens of military thought

Tribune News Service

Lindsey Graham wanted Jan. 6 Capitol attackers shot in the head, book says

A former Washington, D.C., police officer who was nearly killed on Jan. 6 claims South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told cops they should have killed Donald Trump loyalists who raided the U.S. Capitol.

Daily Record

Crime thriller was novel idea for Lanarkshire man as he publishes first book

Avid reader Scott Carlin decided to write his own story after reading several crime novels.

The Walrus

Book Cover Confidential: A Roundtable with Designers

Three insiders reveal where industry trends are headed

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry’ a satisfying, clever dramedy

In the imperfect, but clever and genuinely moving comedy-drama “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,” a lonely bookseller finds love and fulfillment in a way that will remind readers of some of the plots of their favorite books. Set for the most part in the fictional Cape Cod-adjacent Alice Island…

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