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Prince Harry 'Spare' release date and all you need to know about the book

Prince Harry's book Spare will be released this month - just two days after his interview with ITV is due to air - with the Duke of Sussex's book predicted to be a best seller.

Edinburgh Live

After 44 years, London’s first Arabic bookshop closes down

Al-Saqi Books represented a treasure trove of literary works for Arab expatriates in London and visitors alike.

Al Jazeera

Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy manuscript going on show at National Library

The National Library of Scotland display later this year will mark the first time the manuscript has been shown to the public in at least a century.

The Independent UK

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BEM honour for Perthshire's Jess Smith for her tales of travelling life

The storytelling of Perthshire woman Jess Smith, whose tales of her early travelling life have been appreciated far and wide, has earned her an honour in the first New Year of Charles III's reign.

Daily Record

19 debut authors set to make their mark this year

Experts leaf through the debuts to keep an eye on in 2023. By Hannah Stephenson.

The Independent UK

Sugar Street by Jonathan Dee review – on the run and off the grid

A propulsive post-heist thriller that functions as a bravura exercise in generating suspense

The Guardian - UK

The British monarchy has always controlled how much we see of it, but Charles III could change that

The late author Hilary Mantel once wrote of Queen Elizabeth II that she was “a thing that existed to be looked at”. This became even truer in death.

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Benedict aide's tell-all book will expose 'dark maneuvers'

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that is coming out this month

The Independent UK

What I learned in the darkness

I spent five years exploring conspiracy-theory rabbit holes. There's a way to escape: Real people in the real world

Salon

Inside London Road's oldest bookshop filled to every corner

Michael McCabe opened his first shop in 1988

Liverpool Echo

Now Anybody Can Write a Sherlock Holmes Story

Nearly a century after author Arthur Conan Doyle's death, the character is finally free.

Reason

Prince Harry’s new book ‘to lift lid on conflict between him and his brother’

Spare will be out on January 10 and is described by its publishers as being written with ‘raw, unflinching honesty’

Evening Standard

‘Worse than the royal family is expecting’: Prince Harry memoir Spare is ‘tough on William in particular’

The ‘personal and emotional’ memoir follows the release of Harry and Meghan’s controversial Netflix docuseries last month

The Independent UK

Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper review – humanity in extremis

In this striking voyage of discovery, Hooper turns to children’s authors to explain her husband’s leukaemia to their sons

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Prince of Wales bears brunt of Harry's criticism in new book Spare

'Charles comes out of it better than I expected, but it’s tough on William in particular and even Kate gets a bit of a broadside'

The Guardian - UK

Listening to books has a long history, but so does silent reading

Letter: The audiobook can be seen as a democratisation of a practice once available only to the elite, says Greg Brooks

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry's book means he and William will never reconcile, royal experts say

Prince Harry's book The Spare is released on January 10 although his father the King features, its his brother William who takes the worst of the criticism

Nottingham Post

Leaked details of Prince Harry's book Spare suggest William and Kate get brunt

A source said: 'I personally can’t see how Harry and William will be able to reconcile after this'

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The Guardian - UK

Christopher Allmand obituary

Other lives: Scholar of later medieval French history and head of the history department at Liverpool University

The Guardian - UK

Alison Selford obituary

Other lives: Novelist and playwright who also had a career as a journalist with the Daily Worker and Times newspapers

Nottingham Post

Meghan Markle could be planning to release her own book after Harry's memoir

The Duke of Sussex's tell-all book Spare - which has promised "raw, unflinching honesty" - is out on January 10.

The Guardian - UK

In brief: We All Want Impossible Things; Sensational: A New Story of Our Senses; Invisible Child – review

A whip-smart novel that finds joy in grief; an engaging hybrid of science, history and culture; and a Pulitzer prize-winning insight into poverty and homelessness

Daily Record

Prince Harry's bombshell book leaked as Prince William and Kate Middleton blasted

The tell all book is expected to be released later this month and early reports claim it will blow a huge rift between the two royal brothers.

The Guardian - UK

River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer review – a mother’s quest for her lost children

A former enslaved Bajan plantation worker embarks on a courageous journey in this immersive debut

The Guardian - UK

Fiction to look out for in 2023

With new work from Richard Ford, Lorrie Moore and Zadie Smith, plus second novels by Caleb Azumah Nelson and Guy Gunaratne, this is shaping up to be a memorable 12 months

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