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Sicilian mobster asks judge to order seizure of Roberto Saviano book
Giuseppe Graviano files for defamation against Gomorrah author over origin of nickname
Continue reading...OMG! It’s Jane Austen... the TikTok generation embraces new heroine
Two hundred years on, Austen’s take on the pressures of friendship and love is winning over young readers
Continue reading...Thursday, January 26, 2023
Schiff calls Mike Pompeo ‘failed Trump lackey’ after classified records claim
Democratic congressman pushes back after former CIA chief and secretary of state accuses him of leaking classified information
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Magical mystery tour: Paul McCartney’s unseen photos to be published in new book
1964: Eyes of the Storm will bring together 275 forgotten snapshots of the Fab Four taken by Paul as they toured six cities, including their first ever visit to the US
Continue reading...Victor Navasky, award-winning author and editor of the Nation, dies at 90
Liberal lion won National Book Award and edited leftwing Nation, with writers including Hitchens and Cockburn, from 1978 to 2005
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Washington Post publisher condemns Pompeo book for ‘vile’ Khashoggi ‘falsehoods’
Fred Ryan says former secretary of state ‘outrageously misrepresents’ Post journalist murdered by Saudi Arabian regime
Continue reading...Florida teachers forced to remove or cover up books to avoid felony charges
State’s new bill goes into effect prohibiting material unless deemed appropriate by a librarian or ‘certified media specialist’
Continue reading...Monday, January 23, 2023
Mike Pompeo dismisses ‘faux outrage’ over murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Former Trump secretary of state claims US media depicted Washington Post columnist as ‘a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward’
Continue reading...First UK festival for east and south-east Asian writing announced
The ESEA Lit Fest promises a ‘a joyful, thought-provoking celebration of ESEA culture that’s open to all people’
Continue reading...Sunday, January 22, 2023
Who was Beethoven’s mysterious Elise? Historian concludes she never existed
The identity of the muse for Für Elise has long puzzled experts. A new book suggests it was named by someone else, after the composer’s death
Continue reading...Friday, January 20, 2023
Nikki Haley accuses Pompeo of ‘lies and gossip to sell book’ after vice-president plot claim
Former UN ambassador hits back at former secretary of state as jockeying for Republican presidential primary hots up
Continue reading...Thursday, January 19, 2023
Baftas 2023: the full list of nominations
All the films and actors up for awards at the 76th edition of the British Academy film awards
• German drama All Quiet on the Western Front leads Baftas with record-equalling 14 nominations
Nikki Haley plotted with Kushner and Ivanka to be Trump vice-president, Pompeo book says
In book aimed at 2024 run, ex-secretary of state also says Trump asked him to be secretary of defense at same time, a ‘nutty idea’
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 18, 2023
‘Medieval institution’: Commonwealth Guardian readers on Prince Harry’s Spare
Comments range from ‘the monarchy is valuable’ to ‘Harry and Meghan are having their cake and eating it’
Continue reading...Hong Kong police arrest six for selling ‘seditious’ book at lunar new year fair
Six people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terror
Continue reading...Jonathan Raban, travel writer and novelist, dies aged 80
The British author, who lived in the US, blended memoir and travelogue in books that were often inspired by the sea
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Prince Harry’s Spare is fastest-selling nonfiction book since UK records began
First week of the controversial memoir’s sales breaks official UK records reports Nielsen, Guinness World Records and Waterstones
Continue reading...Monday, January 16, 2023
‘Queen’ is UK children’s word of the year for 2022
Almost half of the children surveyed by Oxford University Press chose ‘Queen’ as their top word, with ‘happy’ and ‘chaos’ in second and third place
Continue reading...Anthony Joseph wins TS Eliot prize for ‘luminous’ poetry collection
Joseph takes £25,000 prize for Sonnets for Albert, which weighs the impact of growing up with a largely absent father
Continue reading...Boris Johnson to publish ‘memoir like no other’ of his time as PM
The book, which so far has no title or publication date, was announced by publisher William Collins, who did not reveal how much Johnson will be paid
Continue reading...Bookseller ‘fundraising for a dream’ to open Arabic bookshop in London
Following the closure of Al Saqi Books, Maqam, founded by a former staff member, aims to offer a new ‘home for people who love the Arabic language’
Continue reading...Thursday, January 12, 2023
Colleen Hoover apologises for ‘tone-deaf’ colouring book based on domestic violence novel
Bestselling author cancels plans for a colouring book based on her novel It Ends With Us, saying she ‘absolutely sees’ why fans were critical
Continue reading...Prince Harry’s memoir Spare shifts more than 1.4m copies in a day
The much-anticipated account of the troubled prince’s life has broken publisher’s previous record for first-day sales in the UK, US and Canada
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Prince Harry’s autobiography Spare is UK’s fastest-selling nonfiction book
The memoir, which includes claims Prince William attacked him, records figures of 400,000 on its first day
Continue reading...UK’s independent bookshops survive Christmas but fear for the future
Survey shows majority of indie booksellers had average sales over the festive period, with many concerned about the cost of living crisis
Continue reading...Charles Simic, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, dies at age 84
The Serbian-American poet, who was the US poet laureate from 2007-2008, won the Pulitzer in 1990 for The World Doesn’t End
Continue reading...Ex-secretary of state George Shultz was besotted by Theranos fraudster Holmes, book says
He was either ‘corrupt’, ‘in love’ or had ‘completely lost’ his mental edge, says grandson who blew whistle on Holmes’s scheme
Continue reading...Monday, January 9, 2023
Prince Harry’s memoir hits No 1 on Amazon, predicted to be one of year’s bestsellers
Spare is already the UK’s top-selling title a day ahead of publication, with high-street retailers expecting sustained interest in the royal psychodrama
Continue reading...Sunday, January 8, 2023
Russell Banks, award-winning fiction writer, dies at 82
American novelist wrote about rural working class communities and those who died trying to break out in his native north-east
Continue reading...Saturday, January 7, 2023
US interest grows after Prince Harry book revelations
New York Times suggests Spare could be one of most divisive celebrity memoirs as comedians and talkshow hosts weigh in
Continue reading...Man pleads guilty to stealing more than 1,000 manuscripts
Filippo Bernardini impersonated agents and publishers to obtain works from writers including Atwood, McEwan and Rooney
Continue reading...Friday, January 6, 2023
Army veterans criticise Prince Harry’s claim he killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistan
Col Tim Collins says ‘we don’t do notches on rifle butt’ and kill-count talk could increase Harry’s personal security risk
Continue reading...Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ relayed message from Diana
Exclusive: Harry writes in autobiography Spare of being told he was ‘living the life she couldn’t … the life she wanted for you’
Continue reading...Prince Harry saw ‘red mist’ in William during brother’s alleged attack
Duke of Sussex recounts altercation with brother, saying ‘he wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to’
Continue reading...Thursday, January 5, 2023
Indie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail year
Lockdowns were good news for book trade as people read more and sought out bookshops when they reopened
Continue reading...National Library of Australia’s free digital archives may be forced to close without funding
With only six months worth of funding left, library’s director general faces ‘very big decisions’ on the future of Trove
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Prince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new book
Exclusive: Harry writes in new autobiography Spare that William ‘knocked me to the floor’ during confrontation in London in 2019
Continue reading...Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash
Continue reading...Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91
Author of novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil wrote more than 30 books as well as TV drama
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Prince Harry’s teasers trigger tsunami of outrage as the Windsors await his book
Will any of the royal family react publicly to the duke’s memoir? The betting would be on Prince William
Continue reading...Rare Robert Burns book found in a barber shop goes on display
The first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is now on display in Fife, with 50 pages missing due to being torn out and used to clean razors