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NI author pens novel set to be 'Sex and the City of Belfast'

"I wanted to read or watch a story that was true to the life that me and a lot of my friends are living so I just started writing"

Belfast Live

From John-Boy Walton to Atticus Finch: Richard Thomas talks ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Richard Thomas — like millions of others — read Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a student.

Tribune News Service

John Green speaks out against school board candidate’s effort to ban his book in his hometown

‘I know some of the people involved,’ said Green in a video. ‘I remember you from middle school’

The Independent UK

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James Shaw on a sci-fi master

Green co-leader and others pay tribute to Philip Mann

Newsroom.co.nz

Javier Marías: modern literature’s great philosopher of everyday absurdity

The author of 15 novels, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize, and the most recent King of Redonda, the Spanish writer was an acute observer of the games we all play

The Guardian - UK

"Embarrassed" Trump acknowledged loss

The admission could be essential evidence for "a prosecution for election-related crimes,” ex-prosecutor says

Salon

Barbara Ehrenreich helped make inequality visible – her legacy lives on in a reinvigorated labor movement

Have you heard of Jaz Brisack, Liz Fong-Jones and Chris Smalls?

The Conversation

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Did you know King Charles III is an author and has written a children's book as well?

Did you know that the new King of Britain, King Charles III, has a deep love for books? So much so that he has authored a few books in different genres including a children's book for young readers!

The Times of India

Al-Qaeda Releases Book Detailing How it Carried Out 9/11 Attacks

The Al-Qaeda terrorist network on Sunday released a book written by a senior member including a detailed timeline leading up to the attacks on several US airliners on September 11, 2001 which left nearly 3,000 people dead in three locations. Marking the 21st anniversary of the attacks, the book was…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ducks by Kate Beaton review – bad boys from the blackstuff

Beaton’s melancholic and humane memoir records her bleak time under the male gaze in Canada’s oil sands

The Guardian - UK

Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux review – adrift in desire

The French writer’s record of an obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat is a riveting, sexually frank study of a woman in the throes of love and lust

The Guardian - UK

‘Speculating about Bond is a national hobby’: Why 007’s fate is now in Kim Sherwood’s hands

With her electrifying new thriller ‘Double or Nothing’, the 33-year-old becomes the first female author to pick up Ian Fleming’s mantle. She talks to Kevin E G Perry about Britishness, the power of myth, and test-driving sports cars

The Independent UK

Bestselling novel forces France to reckon with #MeToo movement

Virginie Despentes’ book Cher Connard pushes problem of sexual harassment back into spotlight

The Guardian - UK

Sophie Cunningham on the ‘crazy challenge’ of bringing Leonard and Virginia Woolf to life

The Melbourne author spent 16 years researching and writing her deeply original novel. In the process, This Devastating Fever became about the process too

The Guardian - AU

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Tolkien: much more than special effects

Editorial: Television’s The Rings of Power is the latest proof that fantasy fiction has not lost its grip on culture

Reuters

Spanish novelist and columnist Javier Marias dies aged 70

Award-winning Spanish novelist Javier Marias died on Sunday aged 70, his publisher Alfaguara said.

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Love Untold; The Modern Bestiary; The Red Planet – review

Ruth Jones’s Welsh generational saga, Joanna Bagniewska’s real-life fantastic beasts and Simon Morden’s Mars exploration

Salon

"Everyone should get our own 'Predator'"

Salon talked with Ander Monson, author of the new memoir "Predator," about the 1987 film, "Prey" and America

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The Guardian - UK

Forever Home by Graham Norton review – effortlessly readable

The fourth novel by the chatshow host is a darkly comic Irish domestic drama that has emotional depth but is undemanding

The Guardian - UK

Rare signed edition of The Catcher in the Rye on sale for £225,000

JD Salinger did not want his friends cashing in, so inscribed copy of classic novel is one of the hardest titles for collectors to acquire

Dublin Live

Amy Huberman says herself and Brian O'Driscoll prefer Netflix nights in to showbiz parties

The 43-year-old also opened up on losing her dad earlier this year

Newcastle Herald

Poppy Starr Olsen skates onto new page-turner

Newcastle skateboard legend Poppy Starr Olsen has combined forces with award-winning Newcastle children's book author Jess Black on a new book, The Colourful World of Poppy Starr Olsen.

The Guardian - UK

Javier Zamora: ‘Now the chances of me crossing the border and surviving would be slim’

The Salvadorian poet on his journey to the US as a nine-year-old, the exciting literature coming from his homeland – and why he is indebted to Dave Eggers

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong jails five over ‘seditious’ children’s books

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, featuring cartoons of sheep and wolves that prosecutors had deemed anti-government.

The Independent UK

Hong Kong speech therapists sentenced to 19 months for books

A Hong Kong court has sentenced five speech therapists to nearly two years in prison for their role in the publication of children's books deemed seditious

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