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The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African womanThe Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo, whose work focused on the modern African woman, has died aged 81.Ata Aidoo, wh…
In this Help Net Security video interview, Rick Howard, CSO of N2K, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the Cyberwire, discusses his book – Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics. In the book, Howard challenges the conve…
Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential electionMargaret Atwood was “the only person who benefited from the election of Donald Trump”, her agent told her soon after the US presidential electi…
Khan, author of two crime series set in India, said he aimed to make the CWA ‘a home for all crime writers’Author Vaseem Khan has been elected as the new chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, becoming the first person of colour to take the role in t…
Harry Potter publisher says in challenging economic times books are seen as cheap form of entertainmentBloomsbury Publishing, the home of Harry Potter, has revealed a rise in annual sales as it said people were turning to books as a cheap form of enter…
Move comes as rightwing groups increase pressure to remove books, most written by or about members of the LGBTQ+ community and people of colourThe American Library Association and the Authors Guild are among a group of organisations bringing a lawsuit …
The Heege Manuscript which ‘pokes fun at everyone, high and low’ is among the earliest evidence of the life and work of a real minstrelFrom mocking kings and priests to encouraging audiences to get drunk, newly discovered texts at the National Library …
Kate Bingham, who chaired UK’s Covid vaccine taskforce, tells Hay festival she hopes mind-altering drugs could treat mental illnessThe former chair of the UK’s Covid vaccine taskforce has described the use of psychedelics to treat depression as an “are…
In conversation with Sally Rooney at Charleston festival author says award has hindered her ability to focus on writingAnnie Ernaux, the French winner of the 2022 Nobel prize in literature, has said she never wanted the award and that it fell into her …
Evidence that both women experienced stress and anxiety, with Elizabeth traumatised by mother’s death and issue of marriageElizabeth I was heavily influenced by her mother Anne Boleyn, despite the fact that the latter died when the Tudor queen was less…