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Samuels Library set to close on 1 October after far-right community members claimed LGBTQ+ books were pornographicA public county library in Virginia is at risk of shutting down after a group of far-right community members launched a campaign to defund…
More than £36,000 raised to support low-income black writers in memory of award-winning poet who went missingThe family of the award-winning poet Gboyega Odubanjo have raised more than £36,000 to help launch a foundation in his memory.Odubanjo went mis…
Ex-MP claims her account will lay bare ‘a corruption of democracy deep at the heart of the Conservative party and in Downing Street’Nadine Dorries’ book on the downfall of Boris Johnson will be delayed until November because of “the required legal proc…
Demand to join Nato, coupled with claim France and Germany would leave, ‘pissed off’ US president, author Franklin Foer reportsIn a development likely to cause consternation in Washington and Kyiv, an eagerly awaited new book says Volodymyr Zelenskiy “…
Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician, also says experience and calming presence make US president ‘a man for his age’Amid relentless debate about whether at 80 Joe Biden is too old to be president or to complete an effective second term, an eag…
Award-winning poet last seen in early hours of Saturday morning in Kelmarsh, NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire police are appealing for information to help find the award-winning poet Gboyega Odubanjo, who has been missing since the early hours of Satur…
When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research revealsWhen William Wordsworth’s beloved younger brother John died on a ship that sank in rough seas off the coast of Dorset in 1805, the gre…
Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debtIt was an experience that ruptured his childhood but shaped his life’s work. Two hundred years ago, 11-year-old Charles Dickens was taken out of sc…
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…