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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Netflix scraps film version of Alice Sebold book after rape conviction overturned

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A screen adaptation of the memoir Lucky is no longer in production after the man who was found guilty of the crime at the centre of the stor...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo to be president of Royal Society of Literature

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Author best known for Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other will be first writer of colour in position Continue reading...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Mark Gatiss TV version brings The Amazing Mr Blunden back into print

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Classic children’s ghost story, long in demand as a secondhand book, will receive its first reprint for more than 30 years thanks to the sta...

‘A bit pushed’: Enid Blyton letters reveal strain of work and motherhood

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Exclusive: author writes of pressures of looking after own children and answering ‘thousands of personal letters’ Continue reading...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools

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The American Library Association, which monitors ‘challenges’ to books, says social media have amplified protests to the highest number for ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Roman Abramovich wins first round of libel battle over Putin’s People book

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UK judge rules some passages convey a defamatory meaning, including claim Putin told him to buy Chelsea Continue reading...

Former Trump adviser claims to ‘expose unvarnished truth’ of Covid in new book

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Scott Atlas resigned four months into his role and blames Dr Fauci and Deborah Birx for Covid related ‘headline-dominating debacles’ Contin...

NFT beats cheugy to be Collins Dictionary’s word of the year

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The abbreviation of ‘non-fungible token’ tops a shortlist also including pingdemic, climate anxiety and metaverse Continue reading...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Costa prize 2021 shortlists highlight climate anxiety

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Jessie Greengrass’s novel The High House, set in a flood-devastated Suffolk, was one of several of the nominees to focus on global heating, ...

Tolkien estate blocks ‘JRR Token’ cryptocurrency

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The US investment product promising users ‘a journey through risk to reward’ has been ruled an infringement of trademark rights Continue re...

Cain’s Jawbone: TikTok helps reissued literary puzzle fly off the shelves

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Reissue of a 1934 murder mystery that has only been solved four times sells out online after social media boost Continue reading...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Award-winning American poet Robert Bly dies aged 94

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Bly was an opponent of the war in Vietnam and author of Iron John, the manifesto of the ‘expressive men’s movement’ Continue reading...

Authors back Sally Rooney’s boycott of an Israeli publisher

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Kamila Shamsie, Monica Ali and China Miéville are among those who have signed a letter organised by Artists for Palestine Continue reading....

Kayleigh McEnany’s book claims don’t stand up to assurances that she didn’t lie

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Trump’s fourth press secretary often relies on single sources and conservative talking points in new book Continue reading...