Award marks first time a British artist and author has won Grand Prix at International Comics festival in Angoulême
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Gordon Burn prize announces ‘electric’ shortlist
Seven-strong shortlist of boundary-pushing books ranges from an Arctic coming-of-age novel to nonfiction about the IRA’s Brighton bombing
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors
Concerns raised about interference or censorship after documents showed writers were barred despite receiving enough nominations
Continue reading...Lindsey Graham ‘threw Trump under the bus’ in Georgia case, book says
Senator told grand jury in election subversion case Trump would have believed martians stole the election, per Find Me the Votes
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Lynda La Plante and James Lee Burke share Diamond Dagger lifetime award
After hotly contested judging, the Crime Writers’ Association presents prestigious honour to two writers with ‘incredible bodies of work’
Continue reading...Sunday, January 21, 2024
‘Every school should have a library’: Philip Pullman calls for new UK laws
The novelist has joined fellow children’s writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson in a plea to ministers for action
Continue reading...Saturday, January 20, 2024
John Lewis review: superb first biography of a civil rights hero
With In Search of the Beloved Community, Raymond Arsenault delivers a fitting tribute to the late Democrat from Georgia
Continue reading...Thursday, January 18, 2024
Review finds libraries in England suffer ‘lack of recognition’ from government
Proposals include the creation of a libraries minister and a high-profile libraries laureate to be the sector’s public champion
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Rare copy of The Amazing Spider-Man No 1 sells for more than £1m
The record price was set by one of only two copies rated near mint/mint in an auction alongside issues of Superman No 1 and All-Star Comics No 8 which featured Wonder Woman’s first appearance
Continue reading...‘Sexual pleasure a gift from God’ but avoid porn, Pope Francis advises
Pontiff thought be be responding to conservative critics after sexually explicit book by cardinal resurfaces
Continue reading...Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books
Leading children’s author says deprived children in UK are missing out on lifetime of reading for pleasure
Continue reading...Monday, January 15, 2024
Novelist breaks with German publisher amid call for wider cultural boycott over Gaza
Lana Bastašić terminates contract, decrying ‘censorship’ of pro-Palestinian voices in Germany
Continue reading...Annotated version of Andreas Vesalius’s masterwork on human anatomy up for auction
‘Mind-blowing’ edition of 16th-century anatomist’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem estimated to be worth up to £1m
Continue reading...‘This person should not be president’: Kamala Harris takes hits in book on Biden
Hunter Walker and Luppe B Luppen, authors of The Truce, quote former staffers to vice-president in scathing assessment
Continue reading...Sunday, January 14, 2024
Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the West Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far right texts
Imperium Press, whose blog fosters a worldview it calls ‘folkishness’, has become an intellectual resource for the far right, but its works are widely available through mainstream sources
Continue reading...Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76
Dissident was openly hostile to Vladimir Putin and protested against Kremlin’s human rights violations
Continue reading...Saturday, January 13, 2024
Dracula writer Bram Stoker revealed as a humble minute taker for actor charity
Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors’ Benevolent Fund
Continue reading...Russia designates popular writer a foreign agent over Ukraine stance
Books by bestselling author Grigori Chkhartishvili, who writes under pen name Boris Akunin, removed from shelves over his opposition to invasion
Continue reading...Friday, January 12, 2024
Palestinian Authority minister to publish diary of life during Israel-Hamas war
Don’t Look Left is culture minister Atef Abu Saif’s ‘shockingly graphic’ day-by-day account of life in Gaza since the 7 October attacks
Continue reading...‘Wokery’, ‘safe word’ and ‘forever chemical’ added to the Oxford English Dictionary
The OED’s quarterly update features new terms related to politics, sex, technology and the environment
Continue reading...Thursday, January 11, 2024
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir to be posthumously published this autumn
Book co-written with the star’s daughter Riley Keough promises to reveal ‘the complexity of being a Presley’
Continue reading...Charleston aims to bring Bloomsbury group works back to ‘rightful home’
Charity that runs house in East Sussex launches bid to fill gaps in collection with ‘treasures’ held in private hands
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville to release collaborative novel The Book of Elsewhere
The Canadian actor has allowed the sci-fi novelist to adapt his BRZRKR comic series about a warrior on a journey to understand immortality
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Martin Scorsese says new Jesus film aims to ‘take away the negatives’ of organised religion
Adaptation of book by Shūsaku Endō, who wrote the source novel for 2016’s Silence, is understood to be set mostly in the present day
Continue reading...Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize
Other authors in contention for the award, previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize, include Naomi Klein and Observer art critic Laura Cumming
Continue reading...Monday, January 8, 2024
‘It’s about being able to say goodbye’: Spanish graphic novel explores early Franco-era reprisals
The Abyss of Forgetting chronicles a woman’s struggle to find remains of her father who was murdered after civil war
Continue reading...Saturday, January 6, 2024
Richard Osman among authors missing royalties amid ongoing cyber-attack on British Library
Writers’ much-needed ‘annual windfall’ of up to £6,600 delayed as library in London struggles to restore crippled systems
Continue reading...Friday, January 5, 2024
‘Before the diary’: new novel about Anne Frank’s life to be published in September
When We Flew Away, by Practical Magic author Alice Hoffman, focuses on the years leading up to the young writer’s confinement
Continue reading...Thursday, January 4, 2024
‘Floored’ union leader called AOC new Springsteen after shock primary win, book says
New York progressive star among subjects of The Rebels, survey of the modern US left by Joshua Green
Continue reading...Trial of Salman Rushdie’s attacker postponed because of author’s memoir
Rushdie’s book about the incident will be published in April, but the delay ‘will not change the ultimate outcome’ of the trial says district attorney
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Charity launches support scheme for at-risk libraries in wake of budget cuts
Around 650 libraries will receive resources from Libraries Connected programme, as almost one in five council leaders fear bankruptcy this year or next
Continue reading...Salman Rushdie memoir about stabbing could delay accused attacker’s trial
Judge says Hadi Matar, who pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charge after Rushdie was stabbed on stage in 2022, is entitled to see manuscript for trial preparation
Continue reading...Monday, January 1, 2024
New thriller from master of twists and turns Harlan Coben comes to Netflix
Adaptation of the hugely successful crime writer’s book Fool Me Once released on New Year’s Day
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