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Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane Austen

The Guardian - UK

Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir

The Guardian - AU

Novel formula for interrupted tale claims Stella Prize

A novel exploring the "messiness of life found in the gap between theory and practice" has won the Stella Prize for one of Australia's most celebrated writers.

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The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likeable debut with aimless charm

The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for love

The Guardian - UK

$8.5 billion school funding package passes Texas Senate

The legislation includes new pots of money for teacher raises and other school costs like insurance and transportation. It now heads to the House, where leaders say it will pass.

The Texas Tribune

Black Dagger Brotherhood: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Passionflix series

Black Dagger Brotherhood follows the events of J.R. Ward's bestselling vampire series. Here's everything we know about the Passionflix series.

WhatToWatch

Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says

Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’

The Guardian - UK

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Bill Gates shares summer reading list for 2025 featuring Bono, Trevor Noah and more

The billionaire and philanthropist has revealed a list of books that inspired his recent memoir

The Independent UK

Nicaraguan 'Dictatorship' Is Doomed, Says Exiled Author

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's "dictatorship" is doomed, exiled novelist Sergio Ramirez has told AFP, predicting the population will eventually rebel against the elderly ex-guerrilla.

International Business Times

A wave of new owners brings fresh energy to independent bookselling

Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a store like Banned Wagon Books

The Independent UK

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger ask for trial delay, citing in part publicity around the case

Attorneys for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students have asked that his trial be delayed

The Independent UK

Goosebumps author reveals which book in the series is ‘really bad’

Netflix is releasing an adaptation of R.L. Stine’s 1992 book ‘Fear Street: The Prom Queen’

The Independent UK

The secret to Judy Blume’s staying power

The classic coming-of-age novel that inspired a new series remains timeless and necessary, on the page and screen

Salon

Little Brother review – remarkable migrant memoir falters on stage

Ibrahima Balde’s desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy review – brilliant primer on leftwing economics

From Marx to Piketty, a sprawling but marvellously lucid overview of capitalism’s naysayers

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary

Alternate political realities are compellingly explored in this sinister vision of a children’s home – but the echoes of Ishiguro are just too strong

Evening Standard

Children’s Laureate calls for action over ‘indefensible’ reading inequality

All children and families should have access to high-quality books that are ‘representative of the contemporary UK’, a report says.

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The Independent UK

International Booker Prize 2025: Banu Mushtaq wins for book ‘challenging Western stereotypes about Muslim life’

The 12 short stories, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, follow the lives of ordinary women living in southern India

The Independent UK

Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 years, chronicling the everyday lives and struggles of women in southern India

The Guardian - UK

‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize

Translator Deepa Bhasthi’s pick of 12 of Mushtaq’s ‘life-affirming’ tales about women’s lives in southern India becomes the first short story collection to win the £50,000 award

Latin Times

Biden 'Repeatedly' Suggested He Could Testify for Son Hunter's Trial Behind Closed Doors, New Book Says

Despite a busy schedule of international travel and campaigning, former President Joe Biden repeatedly offered to testify at his son Hunter's trial in June 2024.

The Guardian - US

Jon Stewart on CNN’s Biden book: ‘Selling you a book about news they should have told you’

Late-night hosts discuss CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book on Biden’s mental decline, and Trump attacks Taylor Swift on Truth Social

The Guardian - UK

‘I read him my seven-page sex scene’: Gay Bar author Jeremy Atherton Lin’s transatlantic love story

When the writer’s partner overstayed his US visa, the couple were forced to live ‘underground’. He talks about their fear of deportation – and the secret to a happy open relationship

The Guardian - US

‘We shouldn’t blow this one’: why Democrats have a chance to retake the working class

Joan C Williams explains how to win over voters – and shares a quiz that tells you whether you’re elite or not

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