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The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz review – jazz age mystery packed with corpses and charisma

The actor’s first novel, set on (and sometimes narrated by) a luxury boat in 1925, swerves from cosy Christie homage into something far more brutal

The Guardian - AU

The Last of Us viewers spot subtle Game of Thrones reference in season two finale

The nod to David Benioff’s 2008 novel was also included in the original ‘The Last of Us’ video game

The Independent UK

Community hoping to save historic church featured in much-loved novel

A community group is hoping to save a historic church which features in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song

The National (Scotland)

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Every Ali Hazelwood Book, Ranked—From 'The Love Hypothesis' to 'Bride'

Her novels are known for being set in the STEM world...and being very steamy.

Marie Claire

36 Strange And Unbelievable Events That Felt Like We Are Living In A Simulation

This broke my brain a little.

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Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made

A thoughtful biography attempts to restore the Alice B Toklas author’s posthumous reputation as a founder of modernism

The Guardian - UK

Perfect your panels and pacing with these comic art tips from an expert

Marvel and Disney artist Derek Laufman explores which moments to illustrate and how to create visual interest in panels.

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No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Anderson was ‘profoundly affected’ by memoir that inspired The Salt Path

The film follows a couple who complete the 1,000km South West Coast Path after losing their home.

Evening Standard

Alasdair MacIntyre obituary

Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’

The Guardian - UK

American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t need to justify my right to write that book’

Five years after being vilified for exploiting the migrant experience in her bestseller, the author reveals how the backlash inspired her latest novel

The Guardian - UK

Never Flinch book review: Stephen King tries plotting and comes out plodding

Stephen King doesn’t do plotting. “Plot is,” he decreed in his memoir On Writing, “the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.” Instead, he likes to drop his characters into a situation, start writing and see where things go. If he gets stuck, he follows the advice of…

Evening Standard

Signing event to be held for acclaimed witch trial book

A chance to meet the women who have been campaigning for justice for Scotland’s “witches” is on offer this coming weekend

The National (Scotland)

Queen icon Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter, according to a new biography

Book claims Freddie Mercury had a close relationship with his secret "daughter" until his death in 1991

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“Thought He Was Gay”: Freddie Mercury’s ‘Secret Child’ Speaks Out 30 Years After His Passing

"No one could have faked all this."

The Guardian - UK

Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist

Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassing

Newslaundry

Memory, movement, and marginality: Memoir of a tribal modernist

For a life that could possibly be best described as eventful, a slim memoir can often run out of breath in reliving its sweep. This sense of life outpacing memory isn't surprising for the Oxford-educated tribal leader from the Chotanagpur plateau in Jharkhand (then in undivided Bihar), who went on…

The Independent UK

Jennifer Dulos dreamed of the perfect life – and then everything fell apart: A new look into her life before she vanished

When Jennifer Dulos vanished on May 24, 2019, in the middle of a contentious custody battle, the story focused on her estranged husband Fotis Dulos and his socialite girlfriend Michelle Troconis. Journalist Rich Cohen tells Andrea Cavallier that his new book Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story delves…

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The Independent UK

Freddie Mercury had secret child, new biography claims

Late rock star apparently gave his daughter 17 volumes of detailed personal journals

Evening Standard

Freddie Mercury 'had secret daughter from illicit affair', extraordinary new biography claims

The Queen frontman’s secret love child speaks out 48 years after her birth: 'He adored me and was devoted’

The Guardian - UK

Freddie Mercury had secret daughter, new biography claims

According to Love, Freddie, Queen frontman had close relationship with child conceived accidentally in 1976

The Guardian - UK

John Fletcher obituary

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

The Guardian - UK

‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq

The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction with her translator Deepa Bhasthi for her collection of short stories about the lives of Muslim women. They explain why Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A girl with super strength; anarchic doughnuts on a mission to rule the world; boys in the Blitz; an Igbo YA fantasy and more

The National (Scotland)

Supreme Court ruling on sex 'misinterpreted', says former judge Lady Hale

THE Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman has “been misinterpreted”, Lady Hale has said.

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