4 h. ago Instagram anxiety, protein powder and internet porn – it’s The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, the Gen Z reboot

HOLY MOLEY, look who’s back. Today’s youngsters may not know this speccy lad of Eighties fame – but he is coming to a TV near you soon. He is, of course, the comically angsty soul first brought to life in author Sue Townsend’s 1982 bestselling book The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 133 4. She...

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4 d. ago Colleen Hoover says ‘ugliness’ of It Ends With Us legal drama has given her PTSD

Author said she no longer recommends the book because Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s lawsuit ‘overshadows’ her work

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4 d. ago A troubling question has been raised around human authors vs AI

More than half of the UK’s published novelists agree that it’s likely artificial intelligence will displace their work entirely, prompting fears of a two-tier market in the literary world where only the rich can afford author-penned books. What on earth does that mean? asks Annabel Nugent

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5 d. ago Inside Sarah Ferguson's fresh Epstein nightmare and why new book has been 'pulped'

Sarah Ferguson has penned over 50 books during her career as an author - but now she's faced a fresh blow with her upcoming project. She is said to be 'massively on edge' about the ongoing fall-out

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5 d. ago Author Colleen Hoover says ‘ugliness’ of It Ends With Us legal drama has given her PTSD

Author said she no longer recommends the book because Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s lawsuit ‘overshadows’ her work

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6 d. ago Cowie author aims to spread yoga message to youngsters with first book

The book speaks of a transformation of a down-on-his-luck bear who changes his life and skills after he learns the tools of breathwork and relaxation tools.

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8 d. ago Charlotte’s Web author’s granddaughter slams DHS for using iconic book to brand deportation efforts

Martha White, who manages her grandfather’s literary estate, said he would ‘not condone fear-mongering,’ in response to recent activity by agents in North Carolina

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1 week ago JFK got 'secret trailer park lover pregnant' and told her to 'have abortion', bombshell book claims

John F Kennedy's wild fling with a flight attendant he met in a bar has come to light after her family shared her personal diaries with the author of a bombshell new book

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1 week ago Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability. Good luck with that | Judith Levine

Two problems stand in the way of the party’s efforts: their policies and their presidentTry as they might to present Zohran Mamdani as the exemplar of their opponents’ radical-left lunacy, the platform the New York mayor-elect and other Democrats won on was affordability – the same platform on which Trump ran, and has spectacularly failed to deliver.So in their panic, Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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1 week ago Debut author Chris Barkley on his Hebridean whodunnit, The Man on the Endless Stair

A stay on the Isle of Eigg gave Chris Barkley the spark of inspiration he needed to complete his debut novel, he tells Malcolm Jack, ahead of his appearance at this month’s St Andrew’s Book Festival in London

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1 week ago Outlander author Diana Gabaldon to receive honorary doctorate from Scottish university today

The author's iconic time-travelling fantasy book series has sold more than 50 million copies in dozens of languages worldwide.

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2 w. ago Andrew Miller and Kiran Desai are favorites to win the Booker Prize for fiction

British novelist Andrew Miller and Indian author Kiran Desai are the favorites to win the Booker Prize for fiction at a ceremony in London

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2 w. ago ‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation

What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchyMaggie Nelson is an unapologetic Taylor Swift fan. She knows the discography, drops song lyrics into conversation and tells me she took her family to the Vancouver leg of the Eras tour. So she’s a dyed-in-the-wool Swiftie? Nelson seems not entirely comfortable with the breathless connotations of that term but yes, the love is real. So much so, she has written a book about the billionaire singer-songwriter, or rather, a joint analysis of Swift and Sylvia Plath, who recurs in much of Nelson’s oeuvre.The notion of uniting these two cultural titans, who are seemingly poles apart in sensibility – one a melancholic American poet, the other an all-American poster girl – came to her when she heard Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department. Alongside its literary references to F Scott Fitzgerald...

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2 w. ago Writer who led the charge to cancel a fellow author during book racism row shares incredible video of herself sobbing

Monisha Rajesh, who is now an author in her own right, was one of the earliest critics of Clanchy's award-winning 2020 book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me.

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2 w. ago Author finally receives apology from publisher four years after she was 'cancelled' during book racism row

Kate Clanchy initially found success with the release of her book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, but the prize-winning book soon faced a tirade of online criticism.

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2 w. ago ‘A historic victory’: our panel reacts to Zohran Mamdani’s triumph | Panel

Our panelists discuss what Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral race means for New York and beyondSet aside for a moment the interminable back and forth over whether Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party. This much is beyond dispute: Zohran Mamdani represents the immediate future of New York City, America’s largest town and the financial capital of the world.Osita Nwanevu is a columnist at Guardian US and the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American FoundingJudith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in FascismMalaika Jabali is a columnist at Guardian USBhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequalities Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author

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3 w. ago The many uses of leftover chutney, from breakfast to soups and glazes | Kitchen aide

With Christmas around the corner, our panel of experts recommends creative ways to finish off half-eaten jars before the new ones arrive Every Christmas I’m given chutney, and I still have four barely used jars. What to do with them before the next lot arrive? Christine, OxfordThis sounds like a job for Claire Dinhut, author of The Condiment Book, who also goes by the moniker Condiment Claire. She would approach this meal by meal, starting with breakfast. “It might not seem so obvious,” she says, “but I put Branston pickle on my avocado toast. If you think about it, you often add acidity, which is usually lemon, but chutney is punchy and has that same tang, as well as a bit of texture.” Regardless of what jars Christine has hanging around, Dinhut would also consider the breakfast bap: “Whether it’s spicy mango, peach, chilli or tomato chutney, that would be so delicious with an egg yolk.”Roger Pizey, executive head of pastry at Fortnum & Mason, is no stranger to Christine’s chut...

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3 w. ago I'm an author — these five books are so good I recommend them to everyone

Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House, The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Everlasting, has shared some of her top book recommendations for book lovers

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3 w. ago Lynne Ramsay on pushing Jennifer Lawrence to the brink in her twisted motherhood drama: ‘I make films my way’

She burst on to the scene with Ratcatcher and terrified audiences with We Need to Talk About Kevin. The Scottish film-maker’s latest stars Hollywood darling Lawrence, but it doesn’t flinch from the dark side of family lifeSeveral years ago, Martin Scorsese read Die, My Love in his book club. The novel, by Argentinian author Ariana Harwicz, follows an unnamed woman who moves with her husband to the middle of nowhere in France. Isolated and frustrated, she battles the confines of marriage and motherhood. She introduces herself to the reader as “a nutcase”, as “someone beyond repair”. She sets fire to ants, swears at her child, complains of its “constant clucking and grousing”. She speaks the unspeakable: “I’m a mother, full stop. And I regret it, but I can’t even say that.”Scorsese subsequently sent the novel to Jennifer Lawrence’s production company. He was convinced that Lawrence could – should, must – play the mother. In turn, Lawrence and her producing partner, Justine Ciarrocchi,...

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