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Margareta Magnusson obituary

Artist and writer who found fame late in life when she popularised the concept of ‘death cleaning’

The Guardian - UK

Zach Bryan donates Jack Kerouac’s On The Road scroll to museum after $12m auction

Last year, the country music star bought a church in Lowell, Massachusetts, that will become the Jack Kerouac Center

The Independent UK

PEN America announce 2026 World Voices festival with Judith Butler and Bill McKibben

The 2024 festival was cancelled after multiple authors pulled out over the non-profit’s stance on the Israel-Gaza war

The Guardian - US

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“This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together and continuing to make music”: Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September

The book will detail the thrash singer/guitarist’s life after being diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019

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How one author is using British folk culture to challenge the far right

Broadcaster and writer Zakia Sewell finds a more inclusive vision of Britain in its folk traditions

The Independent UK

The Minstrels by Eva Hornung review – an audacious, confronting epic

The award-winning Australian author is at her most ambitious with this sweeping rural drama, tackling difficult topics with dazzling prose

The Guardian - AU

The Winds of Winter Crisis: Why George R.R. Martin is Cutting Projects to Save His Final Books

George R.R. Martin says he is cutting back on other projects to finally finish The Winds of Winter, admitting the writing has become 'harder' and he is 'so far behind on everything.'

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Official Alan Parsons Project 50th anniversary book now available for pre-order: Watch Sally Woolfson explain why it’s special

She’s spent years looking through late dad Eric Woolfson’s archive, so Joel McIver’s book is full of never-previously-seen material

Louder

Last One Laughing is the funniest show on British TV

COMMENT: Remember trying not to laugh in school assembly when someone else was being silly? That’s exactly what Prime’s runaway hit ‘Last One Laughing’ feels like – and exactly why it’s so brilliant, says Ellie Harrison (just watch out for Bob Mortimer’s ‘safety face’)

The Independent UK

Artists take on a Terry Pratchett classic for the Penguin Cover Design Award

Check out the shortlisted entries for this year's fantasy theme.

Creative Bloq

Manure dryers and devil dancers: the British empire’s attempt to use photography to control India

In a new exhibition, the featured images reflect Britain’s attempts to document and control the subcontinent’s population, but they also demonstrate the nobility of their subjects – and the futility of the task

The Guardian - UK

Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth review – profound story of a woman’s love for a horse

Where does it come from, this passion for an animal that isn’t even hers? An astonishing debut delves into deep truths about love, motherhood and care

The Guardian - UK

Who is Celia Walden? Quick Facts on Piers Morgan's Wife and The Controversy That Had Him Walk Out Of His Own Show

During a heated interview, Piers Morgan walked off set after a tense exchange involving his wife, Celia Walden, and social media personality Harrison Sullivan.

International Business Times UK

Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

Six writers are now finalists for the prestigious annual prize, which awards £20,000 to a writer aged 39 or under

The Guardian - UK

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Secret manuscripts written by mobster Whitey Bulger before his arrest are revealed

Lawyers for former FBI agent John Connolly say that the crime boss’s handwritten statements show that he was framed

The Independent UK

FBI agent dispels conspiracy theories behind America’s most notorious art heist – and reveals who he thinks really did it

The Boston museum is still offering up to $10 million to anyone who returns the art in good condition

The Guardian - UK

Future of William Wordsworth’s Lake District home secured for the public

Romantic poet’s Rydal Mount and Gardens, marketed for over £2.5m, will remain open under Wordsworth Trust

The Independent UK

Malorie Blackman says Noughts & Crosses racism theme is still relevant after 25 years ‘in the times we’re living’

’Noughts & Crosses’ became a six-book series, which has been adapted for both the stage and screen

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The Guardian - UK

Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a will-they-won’t-they queer romance

Two women fall into and out of each other’s lives over decades, in a moving examination of love and choices

The Guardian - UK

Climate fiction prize announces finalists including Madeleine Thien and Robbie Arnott

The authors of The Book of Records and Dusk join Keshava Guha, Susanna Kwan, Maria Reva and Helen Phillips on the shortlist for the £10,000 prize

The Guardian - UK

Tony Gould obituary

Other lives: Literary editor of New Society and New Statesman who wrote a social history of polio, a disease he contracted in his late teens

Inverse

57 Years Later, The 'Dune 3' Trailer Changes The Books In Two Massive Ways

How is this the end? The new 'Dune: Part Three' trailer suggests this is the end of the "Dune Trilogy." Here's the only way that makes sense.

Marie Claire

Meghan Markle Reveals Her "Current Bedside Book" and What Makes Her Kids "Bloom" in a Rare Instagram Comment

"When @meghan the Duchess of Sussex shares your book, you go into shock, you share, and you celebrate."

International Business Times UK

Children's Book Author Kouri Richins Convicted in Husband's Murder — What the Jury Heard

Kouri Richins, a children's book author, has been found guilty of murdering her husband in a high-profile Utah trial. The case captivated national attention due to its shocking details.

The Guardian - UK

Len Deighton, spy novelist and author of The Ipcress File, dies aged 97

British writer brought wit, realism and class consciousness to cold war espionage fiction, reshaping the genre in the 1960s

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