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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child could soon go worldwide, says JK Rowling

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As play opens in London, author says it could find a home on Broadway and beyond to reach as many Potter fans as possible As Harry Potter a...
Friday, July 29, 2016

'Crazy but fantastic': Man Booker prize pitches tiny publishers into big league

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The year after Marlon James and his indie publisher Oneworld beat publishing giants to win the Man Booker, three small presses are on the 20...

Elon Musk endorsement sparks rush to find out-of-print history book

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Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho becomes Abebooks’s busiest search term after Tesla chief declares it ‘really quite good’ A forgo...

Practically perfect: Meryl Streep to play Mary Poppins' cousin in Disney sequel

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Reuniting with Emily Blunt, the actor will play Topsy Tartlet, a supporting role who didn’t feature in the 1964 Julie Andrews version of PL ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Vatican library digitises 1,600-year-old edition of Virgil

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Seventy-six pages and 50 illustrations from the great Latin epic made available to all, part of a project to put all its 80,000 manuscripts ...

Hans Fallada novel, Nightmare in Berlin, gets first English translation

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Story of married couple contending with a devastated postwar Berlin follows runaway success of Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel Al...

Pre-fame Bruce Springsteen tracks to feature on 'audio companion' to his autobiography

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The compilation Chapter and Verse will include five songs never before released, dating back to 1966 Bruce Springsteen has announced a comp...

Venice 2016: Terrence Malick and Tom Ford set for red carpet in bumper year

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Premieres of new films from Ford, Malick and Mel Gibson join highly-anticipated Michael Fassbender/Alicia Vikander romance, Natalie Portman ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Anger as Derby plans to hand over most of city's libraries to volunteers

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Campaigners condemn strategy to retain four council-run branches, but pass the other 11 to voluntary operations Derby city council’s plans ...

Anne Rice finds there's still life in Lestat with a new vampire novel

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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, described by the author as ‘one of my greatest personal adventures’, is due out in November Anne ...

Man Booker prize judges reveal 2016 longlist

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Two-time winner JM Coetzee’s latest book is on list along with little-reviewed crime thriller by Graeme Macrae Burnet Man Booker longlist ...

Picture books and porn: mini-boom in satirical titles inspired by Donald Trump

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A wave of illustrated books, about what one of the authors described as ‘a golden, racist egg’ for lampooners, have been inspired by his cam...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child set to work magic for bookshops

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With the script for the eighth episode of JK Rowling’s wizarding tale due out on Saturday night, retailers around the world are expecting a ...

Australian Dropbears defeat US team to win Quidditch World Cup

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The third global championship in ‘muggle’ version of JK Rowling’s airborne team game draws 21 national teams to Frankfurt contest In a magi...