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The plot Dickens: Why TV needs to get over its Great Expectations obsession

Charles Dickens’ timeless 1861 novel has been adapted for TV and film numerous times – with the BBC’s new miniseries coming just 12 years after it last tackled the story. Commissioners should start showing a little more imagination, argues Louis Chilton

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Cop who nailed gangster Paul Ferris lifts the lid on moment he snared criminal

Daily Record

Millie Bobby Brown's debut novel is inspired by grandma's 'very personal' WWII story

Actor Millie Bobby Brown is about to be a published author.

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Book thief in plot that duped famous authors avoids prison

It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists

The Independent UK

Shadow And Bone’s Newest Cast Members Explain What It Was Like Finding Out Season 2 Combined Various Books From The Series

Patrick Gibson, Lewis Tan and Anna Leong Brophy discuss what it was like finding out Season 2 of Shadow and bone combined various books from the series.

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Margaret Atwood on her new collection Old Babes in the Wood and the ongoing relevance of The Handmaid's Tale

The Booker Prize winner lost her partner in 2019. Now, she draws upon their life together in her new book, Old Babes in the Wood.

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Librarians: Book bans hit record high

Attempts to ban books infringe on a person's constitutional rights, says one intellectual freedom advocate

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Lisburn's Sam McBratney murals to attract global visitors

"This is another welcome step in recognising Sam McBratney who has made a huge contribution to children's lives."

Belfast Live

Judge rules it's not racist to call someone a 'dark horse' after Leeds tribunal

A black worker tried to sue her employer when her boss used the innocuous phrase which dates back to a novel by Benjamin Disraeli in 1831

Leeds Live

AOC calls story of Rosa Parks ‘too woke’ for Republicans

‘When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is,’ congresswoman says

The Independent UK

The Week in Detail: Top authors, lobbying, and Muriwai

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen

The new version of Great Expectations is the BBC’s seventh, while A Christmas Carol is the most adapted English classic ever. What is it about these stories that keeps us wanting more?

The Guardian - UK

Kenzaburō Ōe obituary

Nobel prize-winning writer whose novels linked the personal and political in exploring fatherhood and the legacy of war in Japan

The Guardian - UK

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

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Ling Ma, Beverly Gage among authors honored by book critics

Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J

Wales Online

Deliveroo will be delivering free books about Ramadan to help families learn

Deliveroo has partnered with author Zeba Talkhani (illustrated by Abeeha Tariq) to distribute hundreds of copies of her book ‘The Most Exciting Eid’ - for free - with restaurant orders to help British families learn about Ramadan in a new ‘Deliveread

The Guardian - UK

Lord of the Flies review – school staple is bang up to date for world on the brink

Amy Leach’s production evokes a very current crop of anxieties with the castaways excellently played by a young cast

Inverse

“There’s No Book Club?!” 'Yellowjackets' Star Warren Kole is Happy to Be a Meme

The 'Yellowjackets' star reveals what it's like being a meme, how his character's changed, and his forgotten Marvel role.

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The Guardian - UK

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

A bullying beetle; an Irish myth; the search for a magical beast; and a gripping coming-of-age story set in Ghana

The Guardian - UK

Book fraudster Filippo Bernardini spared jail

The publishing employee who targeted manuscripts from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan was fined and will be deported from the US

The Guardian - UK

A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again

The BBC is about to screen yet another adaptation of Great Expectations – and enough is enough. It’s time they focused on new stories, rather than constantly making the same show

Daily Mirror

Mum sells first-edition Harry Potter book - with life-changing consequences

Kirsten Kane, 35, couldn't believe it when her mum found a rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone while clearing out her attic - just at the perfect time

The Times of India

Record high reported in Book ban efforts, says ALA

According to data released by the American Library Association on March 23, 2023, requests for books to be removed from US shelves and the wave of attempted book banning touched a record-high in 2022, with the majority of titles "targeted for censorship" related to LGBTQ issues and minorities.

The Guardian - UK

Katherine Rundell: ‘My party trick is knowing Jane Austen’s Emma off by heart’

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

The Guardian - UK

Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash review – Europe’s story

The author and journalist charts some of the lessons learned from the Hungarian revolution to the invasion of Ukraine

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