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Tributes flow for Phryne Fisher author Kerry Greenwood

Australian author Kerry Greenwood - who wrote the popular Phryne Fisher historical detective series - has died at the age of 70.

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Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis

The Guardian - UK

Lori Vallow Daybell: ‘Doomsday’ mom who killed two of her children goes on trial over death of husband

A woman who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to kill a romantic rival is on trial again

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Prince Philip Was "Quite Ready to Die" But Queen Elizabeth Was Left With a "Huge Void"

"I have absolutely no desire to cling on to life unnecessarily. Ghastly prospect."

Marie Claire

The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!

The annual award for aspiring cartoonists – which now boasts its own evening event – offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film deals

The Guardian - UK

“Toxic Female”: Woman Who Slept With 200 Men After Cancer Diagnosis Leaves Stirring Note

"I realize I did get to fall in love. I am in love. With me."

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We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain

The author’s sharply intelligent history of how black British identity was forged beyond London in the cauldron of the Thatcherite 1970s and 80s is a necessary corrective

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NASA website removes 'First Woman' graphic novel — but here's where you can still find it

The interactive female astronaut series was created to inspire a new generation of space explorers.

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Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture

In this deeply personal but wryly funny memoir, the author examines her Middle Eastern ancestry and asks what it means to witness her community and their traditions fade from memory

The Guardian - UK

Alex Wheatle obituary

Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain

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The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – a warm story of second starts

A bereaved woman forms new relationships in the author’s first novel in seven years, a tender and funny tale of forgiveness

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Bad Nature; Bad Friend; The Flitting – review

An impelling US road-trip for our times; an enlightening cultural history of female friendships; and a bond forged over butterflies for a son and his dying father

The Guardian - UK

The new book from Scotland which delves into how Russia operates

From a Western perspective, it’s often hard to understand why the Russian people would support a man like President Vladimir Putin and fail to…

The National (Scotland)

Handle with care: the international community sending parcels of pure joy through the mail

Anna Ryan-Punch was 15 when she received her first friendship book. It was the start of a lifelong hobby

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Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’

The Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-first

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On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden

The Guardian - US

‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

US political scientists’ book argues aggressive Covid policies such as mask mandates were in some cases misguided

The Guardian - UK

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year

This exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essential

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Netflix might have the next The Last Of Us in huge new sci-fi trailer

The Eternaut looks awesome

The Independent UK

Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week

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62 Times This Satirical Online Magazine Delivered The Funniest And Most Relatable Headlines (New Pics)

One wonderful way to stand out from the crowd is humor. This is something that the team at Reductress, the internet’s “first and only satirical women’s magazine,” understands very well.

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“Confusion, Violence, Deprivation”: Tom Hanks’ Daughter Drops Bombshell About Her Childhood

Tom Hanks's daughter reveals her "confusing, violent" childhood in her memoir.

The Independent UK

Macron’s ‘industrial levels’ of fragrance overpowering aides in Elysee Palace, book claims

French president uses copious amounts of Dior Eau Sauvage as a way of asserting his power, says former aide

The Guardian - UK

My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature

The Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoir

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John Seed obituary

Other lives: Author, poet and academic whose books often fused history with verse

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