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The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova review – stunning short stories

There’s a glorious excess to these weirdly baroque tales, which set their sights on exploitation and English exceptionalism

The Guardian - UK

Seven Hills: It’s Bristol but not as you know it

There’s beauty on the Avon, just not where everyone looks. Photographer Chris Hoare shows a different side of one of England’s most curious cities, writes Liam James

The Independent UK

HBO's House Of The Dragon Returns In 2024, But You Should Check Out George R.R. Martin's Rise Of The Dragon Black Friday Deal Now

The wait is on for Season 2 of House of the Dragon, but you can learn more about the Targaryens now with a Black Friday deal.

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Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom win the Polari prizes for LGBTQ+ books

Armfield’s novel Our Wives Under the Sea won the overall prize, while Ransom’s The Whale Tattoo took the first book award

The Guardian - UK

Game Of Thrones Fans Are Fully Giving Up On George R.R. Martin Ever Finishing The Series, And I Can’t Unsee One Fan’s South Park Comment

Fan reaction to a recent update by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has revived interest in South Park's portrayal of the scribe.

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Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize

Paul Harding, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray have been given the best odds of winning the prestigious £50,000 literary prize this weekend

The Guardian - UK

Restaurateur and author Russell Norman dies aged 57

Founder of London restaurants and award-winning author, who was at forefront of ‘small plates’ movement, died after short illness

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie obituary

Historian whose chronicles of 14th-century Montaillou focused on laypeople rather than leaders

The Guardian - UK

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Is Having A Major Moment, How To Buy The Book And All The OG Hunger Games Movies This Black Friday

Do you have a renewed interest in The Hunger Games following The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes release? Here's how to buy the novel and OG movies this Black Friday.

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Where to start with: AS Byatt

The author and critic, who died last week aged 87, left behind a treasure trove of writings – sensuous, erudite, experimental and in love with literature. Here are some good places to begin

The Guardian - UK

Prince Harry 'ready to forget row with family and attempt reconciliation'

Extracts from book by Omid Scobie claim Harry is hopeful of reviving relationship with estranged family

Evening Standard

OPINION - Deadly Game review: Michael Caine is a peerless actor, but how’s his first novel?

Perhaps he was inspired by Alan Garner who, at 88, last year became the oldest ever person to be nominated for the Booker Prize. Maybe as “a life-long reader of thrillers” he thought, as most life-long readers of thrillers do at some point, that thrillers quite often seem formulaic and…

Evening Standard

A Nearly Normal Family cast: who's who in the Netflix drama

Who's in the A Nearly Normal Family cast? Find out who stars in the Netflix adaptation of M. T. Edvardsson's gripping family drama.

WhatToWatch

‘Mainstream media silent on tribal issues’: Adivasi writer Jacinta Kerketta refuses press award

Distressed about the lack of respect being given to Adivasis in Manipur, Adivasi writer Jacinta Kerketta, refused an award from the India Today group for her work.

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The Guardian - UK

Malorie Blackman’s career honoured in British Library exhibition

Show dedicated to the prolific children’s and young adult novelist includes 82 rejection letters alongside her children’s laureate medal

The Guardian - AU

Sara M Saleh: ‘I want to know the system and its flaws, so I know how to undo it, transcend it’

Grief and trauma can be generational, says the poet and human rights lawyer, but gifts can be generational too

The Guardian - UK

Jane Austen’s own copy of Curiosities of Literature to go up for auction

Described as ‘a remarkable piece of history’, the copy of Isaac D’Israeli’s essays collection is one of 20 books the author is known to have owned, and features her own underlinings and annotations

The Guardian - UK

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

A poetic Advent calendar, warming words from Neil Gaiman, a magnificent menagerie and a sinister secret Santa

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One Night review – Jodie Whittaker absolutely soars in this mystery drama

Forget Doctor Who, this Big Little Lies-esque Australian drama really lets the actor spread her wings. It’s a glossy female-centred look at past secrets that’s full of important questions

The Guardian - UK

‘What he said is disgusting’: Stockton seethes over minister’s alleged jibe

People in Teesside town say comment attributed to James Cleverly was rude, wrong and revealing of Tory attitudes

The Independent UK

Camilla ‘makes reading sexy’, says Ben Okri as Queen hosts Booker Prize event

The Queen is a passionate reader and patron of a number of literacy charities

The Independent UK

Camilla told she ‘makes reading sexy’ as she hosts Booker Prize authors

The Queen is a passionate reader and patron of a number of literacy charities.

The Guardian - AU

The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas review – carnal but tender love story marks a new era for the author

Jettisoning the rancour of 7 ½, Tsiolkas finds himself in a more gentle and hopeful place, with a book about two heartsore men that might be his best

The Conversation

Booker prize 2023: why these shortlisted novels represent a 'golden age' of Irish writing

This year’s Booker prize shortlist is an exciting line up, melding established, prize-winning authors and debut writers. The 2023 shortlist contains two Irish authors – Paul Murray and Paul Lynch – and on the long list of 13 novels, Elaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat and Sebastian Barry’s Old…

The Guardian - UK

Water by John Boyne review – a cathartic journey of recovery

A woman retreats to a remote Irish island following the collapse of her life, in the first of a series named for the four elements

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