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Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plotsScience fiction has always dealt with worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and the climate…
TikToker Jerrad Swearenjin approached Shawn Warner during a book signing because he looked ‘super defeated’A debut author struggling with sales became Amazon’s No 1 bestseller this week after a video of the writer at a quiet book signing went viral on …
Judges praised the ‘staggering amount of talent on display’ in entries to the competition launched by the London Review Bookshop for writers aged 11 to 14The winners of the inaugural Martha Mills prize for young writers have been chosen from more than …
NEED A GOOD BEACH READ? Things are heating up in the literary world this summer, so in case you’re headed to the beach or the […] More
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Mattel says the Barney movie will be inspired by Charlie Kaufman, while Barbie director Greta Gerwig is planning two Narnia movies for NetflixThe Daniel Kaluuya-produced movie featuring Barney the Dinosaur will be an “adult”, “surrealistic” and “A24-ty…
Like any author, translators want to receive credit for their work instead of being treated as an afterthoughtThey have often been overlooked in the artistic and literary process, but translators have long claimed they have the power to change everythi…
Tributes paid to celebrated author who had been documenting Russian war crimes since the invasionSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageThe award-winning Ukrainian novelist, essayist and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina, who was wounded last week…
The writer’s scripts for a TV series about the nurse were among those recovered from her old computer by the British LibraryHad it been made, the television drama would have begun with a middle-aged Mary Seacole, the British-Jamaican woman who nurses h…
Rare edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone bought for 30p goes up for auction next weekIt is a book that has certainly lived up to its name: a rare edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone bought for 30p could fetch up to £5,00…
The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire. The New York Times: Cecilia Rabess figured her debut novel, “Everything’s Fine,” would spark criticism:…