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Demands to censor, most often for gender themes or sexual detail, rose 38% year on year in 2022, with Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe being last year’s ‘most challenged’ titleJuno Dawson’s This Book Is Gay was among the books most requested for removal or …
Wolf Hall trilogy author remembered at memorial service at Southwark cathedral on ThursdayHilary Mantel, the celebrated author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, was working on a “mashup” of Jane Austen novels when she died suddenly, her literary agent told a p…
Éditions la Fabrique says foreign rights manager Ernest Moret was held for several hours and asked ‘disturbing questions’ about his political opinionsThe French publishing house whose employee was arrested on terror charges on his way to London book fa…
The editor, writer and literary critic who was the UK’s first Black female publisher will replace Philippe SandsMargaret Busby, who was Britain’s first Black female publisher, has been named the new president of English PEN.The editor, writer, broadcas…
The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’Granta magazine’s Best of British Novelists list, which hails the literary stars of the …
After murdering her friend’s mother as a teenager, as dramatised in film Heavenly Creatures, she turned to writing period thrillersA British crime writer who helped bludgeon her friend’s mother to death as a teenager and was the inspiration for Peter J…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Z-Library appears to be shrugging off a criminal investigation as if nothing ever happened. The site continues to develop its shadow library and, following a successful fundraiser, now plans to exp…
A new book about King Charles is packed with information about his feuding sons and their combustible relationship. “Our King: Charles III — The Man and the Monarch Revealed” by royal family expert Robert Jobson will be on shelves April 13, but select…
While many Potterheads celebrated reports of HBO Max show, some feel it would be tainted by JK Rowling’s stance on genderAt Platform 9 3/4 in King’s Cross station, Harry Potter devotees from around the world gathered to take their picture in front of o…
Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin’s lymphomaRachel Pollack, award-winning author, leading authority on tarot and the occult, trans activist and comic-book writer who created the firs…