World premiere of the film version of the Roald Dahl-based musical also stars Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Dakota Johnson: making Fifty Shades of Grey was ‘psychotic’, ‘crazy’ and ‘always a battle’
Anastasia Steele actor describes constant disagreements on the set of the hit erotic thriller due to disagreements with Fifty Shades author EL James
Continue reading...Monday, June 27, 2022
Philip Pullman leads outcry after Sheffield Hallam withdraws English lit degree
Study of literature should not be a ‘luxury for a wealthy minority of spoilt aesthetes’, author says
Continue reading...Sunday, June 26, 2022
Frank Moorhouse, Australian author and essayist, dies aged 83
Admirers pay tribute to writer best known for the Edith trilogy after death in Sydney hospital
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Saturday, June 25, 2022
Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem
Seventy-five years after Diary of a Young Girl’s publication, Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox’ of the journal’s bright spirit and her fate
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Friday, June 24, 2022
Digested week: the joy of missing out on Glastonbury, and why moaning works
Glastonbury makes me revel in my sprung mattress from where I can watch RMT boss Mick Lynch dressing down media pundits
Continue reading...Thursday, June 23, 2022
Miles Franklin 2022: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize
A self-published novel by Michael Winkler joins Alice Pung, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Michelle de Kretser and Jennifer Down to compete for $60,000
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
The small town with a big potato that inspired a global poetry win
Robertson might be tiny but for poet and schoolteacher Peter Ramm, it is the secret weapon that helped him win the UK’s biggest prize for unpublished poetry
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‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson
The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Continue reading...4thWrite short story prize seeks best new writers of colour
Unpublished writers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds have until 14 August to submit their entries for the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate’s competition
Continue reading...Malorie Blackman’s ‘dynamic imaginary worlds’ win her the PEN Pinter prize
Noughts & Crosses author praised by judges for ‘challenging issues of injustice in a way that is totally engaging’
Continue reading...Sunday, June 19, 2022
Ukraine restricts Russian books and music in latest step of ‘derussification’
New laws also increase quotas on Ukrainian-language speech and music on television and radio
Continue reading...Friday, June 17, 2022
Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing
Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts
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‘Trust breached’: publisher distances herself from author John Hughes amid plagiarism claims
Upswell publisher Terri-ann White says she is distressed by controversy around former Miles Franklin prize longlist novel The Dogs
Continue reading...Jon Snow set to return in Game of Thrones sequel series – reports
Kit Harrington will reprise role if unnamed HBO series goes ahead, potentially extending George RR Martin’s world beyond source material
Continue reading...Thursday, June 16, 2022
Danica Novgorodoff wins Kate Greenaway medal for graphic novel Long Way Down
Judges praise ‘incredible’ version of Jason Reynolds’ novel while Katya Balen wins the Carnegie medal for her ‘evocative’ second book October, October
Continue reading...Ireland marks Bloomsday with play about Ulysses obscenity trial
1933 trial that vindicated ‘pornographic’ James Joyce novel made into play to be staged in Dublin
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 15, 2022
James Patterson apologizes for saying white male authors face ‘racism’
The 75-year-old writer has penned more than 300 titles, sold more than 500m copies and is worth an estimated $800m
Continue reading...Ruth Ozeki’s ‘complete joy’ of a novel wins Women’s prize for fiction
The Book of Form and Emptiness is praised by judges for its ‘sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence and poignancy’
Continue reading...Parts of John Hughes’ novel The Dogs copied from The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina
Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature
Continue reading...Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury reports record sales amid reading boom
People who turned to books during Covid lockdowns continuing to buy them, company says
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo
David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114
Continue reading...Monday, June 13, 2022
‘Surreal fable’ by Derek Jarman to be published for the first time
The 10,000-word story about a blind young king and his valet will be released this autumn along with an audio version read by Jarman
Continue reading...Friday, June 10, 2022
Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years
Coffee company announces ‘difficult decision’ to end the prizes, sparking a chorus of disappointment across the books industry
Continue reading...Miles Franklin prize removes novel from longlist after author apologises for plagiarism
Exclusive: The Dogs by John Hughes withdrawn from $60,000 prize after novelist admits he used parts of nonfiction work of Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich ‘without realising’
Continue reading...Thursday, June 9, 2022
Unseen works by ‘queen of gothic fiction’ Shirley Jackson published
Two previously unseen short stories by Jackson, rated by Stephen King as one of the great horror fiction writers, are to appear in US magazine the Strand
Continue reading...Murdering the competition: Richard Osman thriller tops UK library loans
Stats from 2020-21 reveal that the Pointless presenter’s The Thursday Murder Club is the biggest hit in UK libraries
Continue reading...‘Unflinching’ debut written ‘for something to do’ during lockdown wins top book prize
Diana Reid’s Love & Virtue wins book of the year and literary fiction category at Australian Book Industry Association’s annual awards in Sydney
Continue reading...Miles Franklin-nominated novelist apologises for plagiarising Nobel laureate ‘without realising’
Exclusive: Guardian Australia uncovers multiple near-identical phrases and scenes in John Hughes’ book The Dogs and Svetlana Alexievich’s nonfiction work The Unwomanly Face of War
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Kushner wrote memoir instead of pushing Trump to concede, book says
Jared Kushner took MasterClass from James Patterson and ‘batted out’ part of a first draft in two-week stretch after election
Continue reading...‘Biden blood only’: Hunter Biden’s ex-wife describes Secret Service exclusion
Kathleen Buhle will publish her memoir If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing next week
Continue reading...Cressida Cowell renews call for £100m investment in primary school libraries
The outgoing children’s laureate has transformed six primary schools through her Life-changing Libraries initiative, but says a ringfenced fund is needed for lasting impact
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Praise be: unburnable copy of The Handmaid’s Tale fetches $130,000
The special edition of Margaret Atwood’s novel was auctioned by Sotheby’s and is made of Cinefoil, a treated aluminum product
Continue reading...Monday, June 6, 2022
Sally Rooney novels reset expectations of Ireland, says TV director
Lenny Abrahamson says characters in the books and TV adaptations less encumbered than his own generation
Continue reading...Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity
Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut
Continue reading...Sunday, June 5, 2022
Racism in English education should be seen as safeguarding issue, says author
Jeffrey Boakye argues in new book that schools are unsafe places for students marginalised by race
Continue reading...Unfaithful, too striking... why William Morris’s wife was painted out of the Arts and Crafts movement
Jane Morris’s creative influence on her husband’s design empire has finally been revealed in a new book
Continue reading...How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood
The new film ‘Mr Wilder & Me’ reveals how a search for funding led the director on an uneasy journey back to the central Europe he fled
Continue reading...Saturday, June 4, 2022
Bernardine Evaristo fears publishers may lose interest in black authors
Diversity in book industry must be sustained, and start at the top, Booker prize-winning author tells Hay festival
Continue reading...The Queen’s successors will not be able to create her ‘mystic’, says writer
Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, says monarch’s image stems from time before ‘great media age’
Continue reading...Elif Shafak: there’s a scream building up in young people
Author cites Brexit and the climate crisis as examples of previous generations ‘breaking’ their future
Continue reading...Thursday, June 2, 2022
Author with British citizenship barred from flight home to UK
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi says Ryanair worker in Brussels wrongly took issue with her travel documents
Continue reading...First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned
Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood
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