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Monday, October 31, 2022

Pence blames Trump for events leading to January 6 in new memoir

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Former vice-president says meeting at which advisers led by Giuliani urged Trump to not accept election defeat was ‘a new low’ Continue rea...

‘Lachlan gets fired the day Rupert dies’: Murdoch biography stokes succession rumors

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New book by Australian reporter Paddy Manning hints at Succession-style feud with ramifications for US rightwing politics Continue reading....
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Revealed: TE Lawrence felt ‘bitter shame’ over UK’s false promises of Arab self rule

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Deleted chapter of book by British spy who supported Arab revolt reveals his true feelings about insincere pledge of self-government Contin...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77

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Writer who also edited Independent on Sunday remembered as one of the best in British journalism Continue reading...
Friday, October 28, 2022

‘It’s a therapeutic genre for me’: Iceland’s PM releases debut crime novel

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Katrín Jakobsdóttir joins long list of fiction-writing politicians with book that came together during Covid pandemic Continue reading... ...

Senator Tom Cotton brags about ignoring Trump impeachment evidence

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New book by Arkansas senator, a Republican presidential hopeful, also suggests president did not understand military procedures Continue re...

Lost John Steinbeck essay about American democracy published

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How About McCarthyism? was originally published in France in 1954 and its warning of ‘the taking of power by a self-interested group’ has no...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Prince Harry’s ‘unflinching’ memoir, Spare, to be published in January

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Publishing simultaneously in 16 different languages, the book is billed as ‘full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisd...

Open letter to top publisher condemns $2m Amy Coney Barrett book deal

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More than 250 literary figures rail against acquisition by Penguin Random House of book by conservative US supreme court justice Continue r...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles

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Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fictio...

Trump bragged about new US nuclear weapons, Woodward tape shows

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Former president told Washington Post reporter: ‘We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before’ Continue reading...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Descendant of Doctor Zhivago author loses copyright court case

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Anna Pasternak alleged Lara Prescott copied elements of her book about her great uncle Boris’s lover Continue reading...

Book prices set to rise as production costs soar, say UK publishers

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Firms aim to minimise rises by using cheaper paper and increasing print runs as raw material and energy cost hikes hit sector Continue read...

Peterborough libraries offer amnesty on fines to recover 22,000 missing books

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Service says the move is aimed at encourage the return of borrowers who stopped using the library during the Covid pandemic Continue readin...