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‘Greatly missed’: Camilla pays tribute to late mother-in-law Elizabeth II in first speech as Queen Consort

Camilla and King Charles III ‘immensely comforted’ by messages of condolence received from around the world

The Independent UK

Camilla welcomes Essay Competition winners with first speech as Queen Consort OLD

The Queen Consort paid tribute to the Queen, who had been a patron of the Royal Commonwealth Society since 1952.

The Independent UK

Works by David Hockney and Rankin to be sold in anonymous auction for WaterAid

The sale includes pieces by multiple British artists that will be sold without the names of the artists on them.

The Independent UK

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Festival of Thrift: Celebration of frugality booms as cost of living crisis bites

This might be the world’s only festival where a session on how to make your own cheap washing-up liquid was standing room only

The Independent UK

Festival of Thrift: make-do-and-mend fair grows as cost of living bites

Ten-year-old festival in Redcar features swap shops, repair shops and workshops in art of thrift

The Guardian - UK

Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Trust by Hernan Diaz and The Last Gift Of The Master Artists by Ben Okri.

The Independent UK

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To Katya, aged seven, in a bomb shelter in Kyiv

In a new poem, the novelist and poet Ben Okri writes about what hope can grow out of the destruction in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery

The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: Nasty niff gets up noses in wealthy Knightsbridge

Today’s Diary: Smelling a rat in Knightsbridge / Francis Bacon at the RA / Delia Smith’s distaste for other TV chefs / Parliamentary book club channels Fincher’s Fight Club

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Ben Okri’s fury at claims his novel was ghostwritten

NOVELIST Ben Okri tells us he is “really furious” about a false claim from a ghostwriting agency that they had written parts of his Booker prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

Evening Standard

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