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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

The Guardian - AU

Downfall by Nadine Dorries review – wild wild Westminster

The former culture secretary’s ‘real-life political thriller’ takes in sex parties and pasta plotters – but raises more questions than it answers

The Guardian - UK

Seeing the Unseen

"The perfect gardener leaves the yard looking as though it were nature itself. ... And thus, say I, are we."

Texas Observer

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Neighbours react to critical report into running of Captain Tom Foundation

The charities watchdog found there had been repeated instances of misconduct by the veteran’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband Colin.

Evening Standard

HBO sternly addresses JK Rowling complaints as new Harry Potter series nears production

HBO doesn’t care if you’re angry about author’s views on trans people

The Independent UK

‘You’ll die alone like a dog’: Daughter tells French man accused of drugging wife in mass rape trial

Dominique Pelicot has admitted to orchestrating scheme to have men rape his wife while she was unconscious

The Independent UK

Duets review – co-written stories that sing

From the horrifying to the hilarious, this collection of collaborative tales is endlessly inventive

The Guardian - UK

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Captain Tom's family 'made £1m for themselves' through charity link, damning report states

The Charity Commission said his daughter and son-in-law displayed a "pattern of behaviour" in which they benefitted personally from the Captain Tom Foundation

Evening Standard

Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize

The Guardian - AU

That Time Solicitor General Fried Redacted The Word "Plenary" From a Printed SCOTUS Reply Brief With A Marker

A fascinating tidbit from the excellent new book, "The Meese Revolution"

Reason

A new stage adaptation of Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs is a delightful homage to theatrical storytelling

Jack Maggs is a delight and a homage to theatrical storytelling in Australia.

The Conversation

Percival Everett and Jason De León win National Book Awards

Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction

The Independent UK

Captain Tom’s family personally benefited from charity they founded, report finds

Watchdog’s highly critical inquiry finds Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore culpable of ‘serious and repeated’ misconduct

The Guardian - UK

Captain Tom Foundation inquiry: three key failings

A book deal, personal appearance and plans for a swimming pool were all criticised by the Charity Commission

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Ingram-Moores ‘made more than £1m from family link to Captain Tom Foundation’

The Charity Commission began looking into the Captain Tom Foundation in March 2021.

The Independent UK

What are the findings of the report into the Captain Tom Foundation?

The 30-page document acknowledges that the foundation was created during the Covid-19 pandemic, ‘a period of global turmoil’.

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy’s secret ‘muse’ — who was 16 while he was in his 40s — reveals herself for the first time

Augusta Britt, who says she met the then-married author at a motel pool, is believed to have inspired several novels

Latin Times

Famous Author Accused of Using Psychiatrist Wife's Confidential Patient Files as Basis for Award-Winning Novel

An author has been accused of using the confidential files of his psychiatrist wife's patient for his novel that won him the highest literacy award in France.

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The Independent UK

The right book can inspire the young readers in your life, from picture books to YA novels

It’s holiday season, but that doesn’t have to mean waiting in long lines for big sales to buy the hottest toy or newest game system for the kids in your life

The Independent UK

From fashion to sports, coffee table books are great holiday options

Hollywood to fashion, dogs to sports

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy had 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was 42, Vanity Fair reports

Augusta Britt says relationship with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at motel pool

Marie Claire

Riley Keough Opens Up About the Presley Family Curse as the Sole Heir of Graceland

"I think the word 'curse' is used because my family are looked at as this 'not real' mythology."

The Guardian - UK

Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel

Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh

The Guardian - UK

‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the age of extinction and despair

Marie Claire

Prince Harry has 'moved on' from royal rift, expert claims

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