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Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiersAlice Winn has won the 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for her novel In Memoriam, which has been described as a “truly stunning feat of fiction”.Th…
The Fall will be published next month and promises to chronicle the rightwing network and the Murdoch family’s downfall The author Michael Wolff, whose bestselling books have chronicled the rise and fall of Donald Trump, promised on Tuesday to tell re…
In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from “the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood,” writes the American Conservative.
Though everyone loved his Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, “I had virtually no life beyond the drawing…
Digital Public Public Library fights back against rightwing censorship with resource that works through geo-targetingMaia Kobabe’s 2019 memoir Gender Queer is an after-dinner favorite in Jen Cousins’ house. The family lives in Orange county, Florida, a…
Author wrote book about Michael Oher and Tuohy familyOher says family deceived him over events depicted in bookMichael Lewis, the author of The Blind Side, has defended the family at the heart of the book over allegations they deceived former NFL playe…
The book would continue the two he wrote with the late Peter Straub, while new stories are due next yearStephen King has suggested that he may write a third instalment of the two-book Talisman series, which he co-wrote with the late Peter Straub. Asked…
Tucker by Chadwick Moore sells just 3,227 copies in first week after publication on 1 August, Publishers Weekly figures revealA much-hyped biography of the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has struggled to find favour with readers, a leading US publ…
Young people sometimes lack ‘sense of history’ to read texts with dated language, argues bestselling authorJacqueline Wilson has said editing children’s books to remove inappropriate and dated language is sometimes justified because young people do not…
Activist Mikaela Loach staged a protest over investment firm’s ‘bankrolling’ of the climate crisis A leading climate crisis author has staged a walkout at Edinburgh international book festival in protest at its sponsor’s links to fossil fuel companies….
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Internet Archive and a group of leading book publishers told a Manhattan federal court on Friday that they have resolved aspects of their legal battle over the Archive’s digital lending of their sca…