With no Moneypenny and no M, a previously unpublished script reveals the author’s original ideas for Moonraker
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Saturday, April 30, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Four times more male characters in literature than female, research suggests
A study by University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering used AI to measure pronoun use, uncovering a huge disparity in gender frequency
Continue reading...Oxford University Press pulps ‘no longer appropriate’ Biff, Chip and Kipper book
The Blue Eye, which features ‘scary’ people in street market, has been withdrawn from sale after complaints
Continue reading...Barcelona phone booth library vandalised a day after opening
Booth, which first opened on Saturday, is being repaired after vandals painted it with graffiti and stole screen
Continue reading...Six ‘wonderfully diverse’ novels make the Women’s prize shortlist
Louise Erdrich, Elif Shafak and debut novelist Lisa Allen-Agostini are among the contenders offering an ‘escape’ from global crises
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 26, 2022
McConnell was ‘exhilarated’ by Trump’s apparent January 6 downfall, book says
New York Times reporters show how Senate leader’s opposition to Trump dwindled in face of hard political reality
Continue reading...Monday, April 25, 2022
Charlotte Brontë’s $1.25m ‘little book’ of 10 poems returns home
Manuscript entitled A Book of Ryhmes (sic) measures 10cm by 6cm and was written by the author when she was 13
Continue reading...Sunday, April 24, 2022
Previously unseen Lucian Freud etchings to be published for first time
Definitive study will include early versions of the revered 20th-century artist’s most famous creations
Continue reading...Friday, April 22, 2022
Matt Hancock to publish tell-all book on government’s handling of pandemic
The former health secretary will look back at how he and his fellow ministers handled the coronavirus outbreak
Continue reading...Thursday, April 21, 2022
UK publishers take £6.7bn in sales as TikTok crazes fuel purchases
The social media platform was a surprise driver for new and older books as sales rose 5% for print and digital
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Whitby Abbey seeks budding bloodsuckers to break vampire record
English Heritage announce bid to stage world’s largest gathering of people dressed as a vampire at site that inspired Bram Stoker
Continue reading...Waterstones launches scheme to raise £1m for Ukraine
Bernardine Evaristo and Jasper Fforde are among the authors whose books will be sold to raise money for Oxfam’s appeal
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Hillary Clinton to speak at 2022 Hay festival
The former US senator will be in conversation with lawyer Helena Kennedy on 2 June as part of the literary festival’s Women & Power series
Continue reading...Sunday, April 17, 2022
Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library
The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 13, 2022
‘All these men’: Jill Biden resented Joe’s advisers who pushed White House run
First lady tells authors of new biography she cut off push to recruit her husband to challenge George W Bush in 2004
Continue reading...Free Books Fest aims to give excluded readers their first ‘journey with a book’
Event in Peckham, London, this weekend will allow visitors to pick a title they want alongside a range of author events
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Gay references removed from Fantastic Beasts 3 for Chinese release
Big-budget fantasy sequel has had six seconds cut, as Warner Bros releases statement to say ‘the spirit of the film remains intact’
Continue reading...Sunday, April 10, 2022
Beatle v mobster: the day John Lennon put paid to a shady record label boss
Lawyer’s book reveals the inside story of the musician’s 1976 court battle with Morris Levy, a mafia-affiliated music mogul
Continue reading...Saturday, April 9, 2022
Henry Patterson, author of The Eagle Has Landed, dies aged 92
The bestselling novelist wrote 85 books, mostly thrillers and spy stories, using the pseudonym Jack Higgins
Continue reading...Friday, April 8, 2022
Richard Osman to step down from BBC quizshow Pointless
Presenter, who has co-hosted with Alexander Armstrong since 2009, says he will ‘miss everyone so much’
Continue reading...Thursday, April 7, 2022
‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts.
Past nine months have seen censorship effort ‘unparalleled in its intensity’, with books on race and LGBTQ issues singled out
Continue reading...Elmer and Mr Benn author David McKee dies at 87
Author and illustrator of the children’s books including Elmer, Mr Benn and Not Now, Bernard has died following a short illness
• Elmer author David McKee: ‘I’ve never been a prize winner’
Continue reading...International Booker prize shortlist delivers ‘awe and exhilaration’
The final contenders for the £50,000 prize for translated fiction – five out of six by women – could see Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk win a second time
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 5, 2022
‘I didn’t win the election’: Trump admits defeat in session with historians
The ex-president also said that Iran, China and South Korea were happy Biden won, adding that ‘the election was rigged and lost’
Continue reading...Stolen Darwin journals returned to Cambridge University library
Seminal works left in pink gift bag with ‘happy Easter’ note for librarian after going missing in 2001
Continue reading...Hay festival returns with its first in-person event for three years
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bernardine Evaristo, Elif Shafak and Benedict Cumberbatch are among those taking part in the 11-day gathering in Welsh border town
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