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On my radar: Maggie O’Farrell’s cultural highlights

The novelist on a mesmerising mime show, the brilliance of Barbara Hepworth and the best falafel in Edinburgh

The Guardian - UK

Mystery donor helped make publisher's dream come true

An independent publisher has crowdfunded the money needed to open its first shop

Liverpool Echo

Renfrewshire author's new book showcases poems from soldiers of WW1

Tracy Patrick's collection - called Braw Lads are Marching Awa - tells stories of the Great War in verse

Daily Record

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Distinguished authors shortlisted for top ACT book award

Six local authors have been shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year award.

The Canberra Times

Novelist Gayl Jones is among National Book Award finalists

Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction

The Independent UK

An NC school board cleared the room of teens to read a book’s sex scene aloud

The chair of the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Board of Education ordered its teenage student interns to leave a public meeting this week before a board member read an oral-sex scene aloud from an award-winning teen novel.

Tribune News Service

Calicut University denies allegation on book ban

They say all guidelines have been followed while accepting the new arrival

The Hindu

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All you need to know about Prince Harry's upcoming memoir

In 2021, Prince Harry had revealed that he was writing his tell-all memoir which is expected to come out in 2022.

The Times of India

White House Chief Of Staff Was Secretly Reading Book On Trump's Mental Health: Report

John Kelly, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, consulted a book written about Trump’s mental health during his time in the White House, according to a new book being published next week and obtained by The Gua

Benzinga

These high school 'classics' have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth”; John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”; Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”; and…

The Conversation

King Charles 'shrieked' as he 'didn't know what cling film was'

The then Prince is said to have 'trembled' when he saw it

Liverpool Echo

Crime writer scoops McIlvanney Prize after missing out last year

A NOVELIST has won a crime writing prize after missing out on the award last year.

The National (Scotland)

Second time lucky for crime writer as he scoops McIlvanney Prize

Alan Parks was declared the winner for his book May God Forgive.

The Independent UK

King Charles had never seen cling film and 'shrieked' the first time he saw it

The new King of England ''trembled'' the first time he discovered clingfilm according to author, Tom Bower in his book about Prince Philp.

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The Guardian - UK

All the Broken Places by John Boyne review – a sequel of sorts

The follow-up to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful novel about secrets and atonement after Auschwitz

The Independent UK

George Floyd biography among National Book Award nominees

A biography of the late George Floyd and poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds were among the works included Thursday on long lists for the National Book Awards

Los Angeles Times

Anne Heche was working on another memoir before she died. It hits shelves next year

Anne Heche's second memoir, "Call Me Anne," will be released in January, months after she died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Newsroom.co.nz

This week's best-selling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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Tribune News Service

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

The Guardian - AU

Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan review – a tender evocation of the trauma of losing a child

The Kokomo author’s second novel interrogates the bizarre realm of grief in a beautifully tuned story about inconsolable loss

Daily Mirror

Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen criticises Simon Cowell and asks people to 'fly the freak flag'

Changing Rooms presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has said he is worried about Simon Cowell's design ideas for his Cotswolds manor house and encourages people to embrace maximalism

Chicago Tribune

‘Confess, Fletch’ review: Jon Hamm does not rise to the occasion as the jokily intrepid reporter unraveling a mystery

The crime novels of Gregory Mcdonald emerged in the ‘70s as a self-amused antithesis to more typically hard-boiled detective stories. The series began with “Fletch” in 1974 and continued a 20-year run, ending with “Fletch Reflected” in 1994. Irwin Maurice Fletcher (Fletch to everyone who knows him) is a shaggy…

The Independent UK

Trump offered the West Bank to Jordan’s king, according to a new book

The Jordanian king said of the January 2018 offer from the former president that he ‘thought I was having a heart attack’

The Guardian - UK

The Clothes They Stood Up In review – Alan Bennett tale dressed to impress

Adrian Scarborough stars in his own adaptation of Bennett’s story, featuring convincing new dialogue and staged with visual panache

The Walrus

100 Years of Mavis Gallant

Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure

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