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King and Queen help pack food donation boxes at restaurant ahead of Ramadan

Charles and Camilla met a group of Muslim women at Darjeeling Express, a restaurant in Soho, central London.

Evening Standard

The Wheel of Time showrunner explains the one big benefit of being Prime Video's lesser-known fantasy series: "Amazon's letting us fly our freak flag!"

Exclusive: Rafe Judkins talks leaning away from the early novel's Lord of the Rings' leanings even more in season 3

Total Film

Jennifer Johnston, celebrated Irish novelist and playwright, dies aged 95

Once lauded ‘the best writer in Ireland’, Johnston began publishing in her 40s and was Booker-shortlisted for her 1977 novel set during the Troubles, Shadows on Our Skin

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I spy: first-person films can be really exciting – but why are there so few?

Two new films, Nickel Boys and Presence, offer point-of-view perspectives – but it remains tantalisingly rare in the history of cinema

The Guardian - AU

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld is moving, witty and achingly real

I was immediately struck by the title of Curtis Sittenfeld’s new collection of 12 short stories, Show Don’t Tell. That’s because it’s also the name of a narrative technique that allows readers to experience a story through the characters’ actions, words, thoughts and feelings, rather than the author’s explanations. It…

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An opera based on Melville’s masterpiece, 'Moby-Dick,' docks at the Met

The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville's masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick

The Independent UK

Don’t Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside review – more monstrous men

The relationship between a predatory male comedian and a female producer rings true in this darkly funny debut

The Guardian - UK

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From The Sheep-Pig to His Dark Materials: the best audiobooks for children and teens

As research reveals children want to listen to books rather than read them, here are some of the best audiobooks to enjoy

The Guardian - UK

LSE: Top London uni criticised over book launch event describing Hamas as 'demonised'

London School of Economics defends decision to hold book launch describing Hamas as ‘vilified’ and ‘demonised’ by the West

Evening Standard

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a tale of four women

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience

The Guardian - UK

Far from the madding crowd: my personal pilgrimage on the quiet paths of Thomas Hardy’s Dorset

My mother wrote about the meandering trails from the novelist’s cottage, through countryside loaded with literary references – now I’m following in her footsteps

The Guardian - UK

All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees

This year’s ‘unconventional’ list also features the highest-ever number of independent publishers

The Guardian - UK

Bridget Jones author says Jane Austen’s voice still so strong writers ‘steal it’

Helen Fielding is among famous faces taking part in a BBC documentary about Jane Austen as the British novelist’s 250th birthday is marked this year.

Evening Standard

When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley – thrilling leaps of imagination

An impressive collection of poems – largely set in industrial wastelands and musing on time and distance – makes the mundane magical

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Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya; The South by Tash Aw review – love under the eye of the law

Two contrasting but equally impressive Asia-set coming-of-age novels explore gay teenagers navigating their nascent sexuality against the backdrop of personal and political upheavals

The Guardian - UK

‘It shatters my heart’: the slow death of India’s once-famous Urdu book bazaar

For over a century, poets, publishers and printers filled this Delhi district’s narrow lanes. But as profits plummet, bookshops are being replaced by kebab shops

The Guardian - UK

Ministers urged to add audiobooks to England’s new schools curriculum

Charity calls for move after poll finds ‘crisis’ levels of reading for pleasure and rise in 8- to 18-year-olds enjoying audio

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Amazon's Kindle download deadline is in two days — Here's how I saved my ebooks

Amazon is set to remove its PC download option for ebooks on February 26. Here's why it's a bad move and what you can do to save your books before the deadline.

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2,000-year-old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts

The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals

The Guardian - US

‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy of the west

The award-winning writer’s new book contends with how the war on Gaza shattered his fragile faith in the so-called free world

The Guardian - UK

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid

The Guardian - UK

When my sister died, it wasn’t just her own childhood memories that disappeared. Mine did too

Millie had fantastic recall, unlike mine. Now there are parts of my past – and myself – that I’ll never be able to remember, says comedy writer Jason Hazeley

The Guardian - UK

Stories from Cornwall brought to life in new Michael Morpurgo play

White Horse is based on beloved book and explores importance of place, family, home and belonging

The Guardian - US

‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book

In The Pardon, the bestselling legal author holds a master class on the controversial presidential power, focusing on Ford’s pardon of Nixon

The Guardian - UK

The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed

A fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad’s true malice is lacking

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