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The Guardian » 5 days ago
This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human miseryIn his enthusiastic introduction to Paul Lashmar’s Drax of Drax Hall, David Olusoga observ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Sololand by Hassan Blasim; On the Clock by Claire Baglin; Nothing Grows By Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas; Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itselfThis book arrives at an interesting moment. Elon Musk has declared himself a “free speech absolutist”. JD Vance worries that free speech in Europe is “in retreat”. Donal...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Longlisted for the Women’s prize, this powerful dystopian novel imagines people jailed for their potential to commit crimesArriving home at Los Angeles international airport, Sara Hussein is asked by immigration and customs officers to step aside, then taken to an intervi...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Dennis McDougal, a former L.A. Times reporter and bestselling author of over a dozen books, including a biography of Otis Chandler, dies after car accident....
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The Guardian » 4 days ago
Two enjoyable debut novels put fresh meat on Fitzgerald’s deathless classic – one a modern-day retelling in which Gatsby becomes a female influencer, another a pacy murder mystery in the vein of Agatha ChristieIt might seem unfathomable to us now, but F Scott Fitzgerald’s...
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The Guardian » 6 days ago
Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International BookerIf you’ve heard about Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I, long...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Read and contextualised by the poet herself, these gentle gems have an extra tang of immediacyA greatest hits collection from one of Britain’s best-loved poets, Wendy Cope’s The Orange contains themes of love, friendship, family and mortality. The 1992 title poem...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionallyA lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libra...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
In her second memoir, Knox writes about her attempts to adjust to normal life after leaving prison in ItalyWhen Amanda Knox was released from an Italian prison in 2011 after her murder conviction was overturned, her mother insisted she see a trauma specialist. Knox had be...
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