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Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions
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Joe Sugg: 'When I said I was doing a graphic novel, a lot of my fans thought it was something sexual. ' @Joe_Sugg
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'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon
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Alan Rickman's 27 volumes of diaries to be published as one book
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Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months via @guardianreview.
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South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature
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Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92
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Carnegie medal goes to first writer of colour in its 83-year history
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Two years ago, David Bowie revealed his fantastically eclectic list of top 100 must-read books. Here it is:
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Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time
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Bookshops defy pandemic to record highest sales for eight years
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George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
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Han Kang’s Nobel win is testament to importance of small press publishing
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More than 200 writers and publishers sign letter in support of trans and non-binary people
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DC drops Batman image after claims it supports Hong Kong unrest
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John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel
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‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
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Colm Tóibín: ‘Why shouldn’t Catalonia be an independent state within Europe?’
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Rhianna Pratchett: 'Dad would be smiling to see my name on a book'
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Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong review – a young life of protest in Hong Kong via @guardianreview.
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Author Michael Rosen out of intensive care after 47 days
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Bookshops are a precious shelter from the storms of life
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Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong review – a call to arms for the Snapchat generation
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Good Omens: is it one of the best collaborative novels ever written?
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Stephenie Meyer announces new Twilight book Midnight Sun.
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French bookshops ask to be treated as essential services during new lockdown
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Authors ask Waterstones to rehire worker fired after tweet about gender-critical writer
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‘We all read like hell!’ How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse
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John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89.
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‘No reader is too young to start’: anti-racist books for all children and teens
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Extract: Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (the pseudonym of JK Rowling)
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Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Roxane Gay champion trans rights in open letter
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie voted Women's prize 'winner of winners'
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David Walliams calls for 'safeguarding' of libraries
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‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more
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Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature
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Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors
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A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops
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Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards
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The more books in a house, the brighter your child's future, study finds
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce chosen as new children’s laureate
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Elena Ferrante to become Guardian Weekend's new columnist
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Sarah Polley: ‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’
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Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds
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Book sales surge as self-isolating readers buy ‘bucket list’ novels
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Richard Osman’s second book is one of the fastest-selling novels since records began
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Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94
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Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature
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Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell announce new 'piratical adventure'
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Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize
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Philip Pullman unveils epic fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust
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Douglas Stuart wins Booker prize for debut Shuggie Bain
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‘Barefoot bookseller’ sought to run island bookshop in Maldives
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Hugo awards 2017: NK Jemisin wins best novel for second year in a row
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I turned down an MBE – I don’t want an honour glorifying the British empire | Nikesh Shukla
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'Living legend' Linton Kwesi Johnson wins PEN Pinter prize
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Indie bookshops defy Covid to record highest numbers for seven years
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Caught in time’s current: Margaret Atwood on grief, poetry and the past four years
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‘Utterly joyful’ Look Up! wins Waterstones children's book of the year
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Salman Rushdie is off ventilator and able to talk, agent says
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Claire Keegan: ‘I can’t explain my work. I just write stories’
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Sally Rooney: ‘Falling in love when I was very young transformed my life’
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Remembering Ursula Le Guin - it is always worth sharing this excellent piece on the magic of Earthsea by David Mitchell @david_mitchell.
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‘I love the whole atmosphere and can spend hours browsing’: how did bookshops suddenly become cool?
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Oh what a night! Twitter brings £1,000 worth of orders to empty bookshop
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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize
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Maggie O'Farrell wins Women's prize for fiction with 'exceptional' Hamnet
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George RR Martin: ‘Game of Thrones finishing is freeing, I’m at my own pace’
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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes
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Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’
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Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?
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‘Essential for me’: readers on the importance of libraries
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Legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company begs for help in pandemic
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What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’
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The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list
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Judith Kerr, beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, dies aged 95
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‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries
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Tony Mortimer: “Books are just pure escapism aren’t they? The plot twists, the descriptions, the metaphors. It engages your imagination like no other medium! It makes your worries disappear!”.
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Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88
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Famous first words: how celebrities made their way on to children's bookshelves via @guardianreview.
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Best books of 2017: indie publishers on their favourite books of the year
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Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’
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Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98
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Salman Rushdie warns young people against forgetting value of free speech
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