Stuck in a jam? Non-fiction reads to kill time AND your boredom
All dressed up and a million places to go — if this reads like a snapshot of your…
Harper Lee’s ‘Land of Sweet Forever’ review: Collection adds to legacy
Book Review The Land of Sweet Forever By Harper LeeHarper: 224 pages, $30 If you buy books linked…
Laura Lippman’s ‘Murder Takes a Vacation’ brings Mrs. Blossom back
At the beginning of master mystery writer Laura Lippman’s latest novel, “Murder Takes a Vacation,” Mrs. Muriel Blossom…
AI company will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models | News
US-based AI company Anthropic has reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with authors of books that it used to train…
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity | Books
From the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants,…
Treasure trove of Devon history set to be unearthed in new book
One of Devon’s last great untapped sources of history will reveal some of its best-kept secrets with the…
The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great | Harper Lee
When a new book is published by a writer dead for a decade, there is always some suspicion that…
Book Week: Authors take centre stage at libraries across Northern Ireland
Armagh-born Stuart Neville, author of 11 novels including The Twelve, Those We Left Behind and House of Ashes,…
Bijou Theatre to host free book launch party on history of second balcony
The Bijou Theatre will host a special evening, Friday, October 24, 6 p.m. celebrating the release of The…
Has Australia just killed its cultural cringe?
It was through listening to an ABC programme called Incognito that AA Phillips penned his seminal 1950 Meanjin…
Viking pre-empts Molly Pepper Steemson’s Wanting
Viking has pre-empted Molly Pepper Steemson’s debut novel, Wanting. Edward Kirke, commissioning editor at Viking, acquired UK and…
‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked
I have books I return to every now and then because of the impact they’ve had on my life.…