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A Voyage around the Queen by Craig Brown review: a fun, fizzy collection of recollections

Tales about Elton John and Marilyn Monroe. Anecdotes about lipstick and curtseys. Gossip about Princess Anne. Brown’s new book about the late Queen Elizabeth is a portrait of a very odd life, says Harriet Addison

Evening Standard

Bookshop.org launches buy-back scheme for secondhand books

Bookloop will allow customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the online retailer’s website, with accumulated royalties being distributed to authors

The Guardian - UK

‘One word: Cashflow’ — Simon & Schuster swallows independent publisher Affirm

Affirm Press CEO and co-founder Martin Hughes told Crikey he didn’t see the swallowing up of independent publishers as a problem, but merely a ‘cyclical’ thing that creates opportunities for new publishers.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Promotes Literacy Across States

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library promotes literacy through book giveaways, inspired by her father's story. Join the mission to spread the joy of reading!

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Dolly Parton is sending free books to children across 21 states — and around the world

Dolly Parton’s father grew up poor and never got the chance to learn to read

The Independent UK

Melania Trump’s newly-unveiled book cover design raises eyebrows

The memoir, set to be released on October 1, is described by her office as ‘a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence’

The Independent UK

Liz Truss considered cutting NHS cancer care to pay for tax cuts, claims new book

Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister claims the then PM suggested severe spending cuts to fill financial black hole

The Guardian - UK

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Leonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes & Noble, dead at 83

Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller but later saw his company overtaken by the rise of Amazon

The Independent UK

Queen Elizabeth Didn't Make It to Prince Philip's Bedside Before He Died

"He died before the Queen could be called."

Marie Claire

“We shared the experience of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life”: The final track Eddie and Alex Van Halen wrote together will feature on highly anticipated new audiobook memoir

The drummer's upcoming book is a “love letter” to his brother, offering an “intimate and open account” of their personal and musical relationship – and it will include the last song they worked on together

Guitar World

Prince Harry Decides Not To Add Anything New to the Paperback Edition of His Tell-All Memoir ‘Spare’

The Duke of Sussex’s choice is widely considered to be a step toward reconciliation with the royal family.

Marie Claire

Liz Truss wanted to sign eye-watering energy deal that would have cost bill-payers £30bn extra

A poor-value deal negotiated by Liz Truss nearly cost the country £130bn, book claims

The Independent UK

Liz Truss considered scrapping all NHS cancer treatment after crashing economy, book claims

New book by Sir Anthony Seldon features interviews with insiders from the Truss government

The Independent UK

A New Book Argues Grades Are Failing Students. Here’s Why

Joshua R. Eyler gives the U.S. grading system an “F” in his new book, "Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, And What We Can Do About It."

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The Guardian - UK

Bluff by Danez Smith review – ‘Afropessimism’ as an artform

The American poet’s dark, politically conscious fourth collection tackles the entrenched problem of anti-blackness and the aftermath of the George Floyd protests

Crikey

The AUKUS submarine deal has been exposed as a monumental folly. Is it time to abandon ship?

The good news, perhaps, is that it is difficult to imagine the nuclear-powered submarines will ever arrive. The bad news is we will still have to pay the Americans and the British in the meantime.

The Guardian - AU

‘You need to think of history like a sausage’: Rodney Hall devours one momentous year in his new novel

At 88, the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award has captured the grand geopolitical tangle of 1954 in his ambitious 14th novel, Vortex

The Guardian - AU

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is about an autistic boy. But it hasn’t always been autism-friendly

Mark Haddon’s bestselling novel gets an Australian adaptation ‘that Christopher himself would enjoy’ – with a warning system, ‘timetables’ and an autistic star

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The Independent UK

Trump is easily susceptible to being manipulated, his former national security adviser warns

HR McMaster’s new memoir promises ‘readers insight into what a second Trump term would look like’

The Guardian - UK

If Only by Vigdis Hjorth review – love will tear her apart

The pursuit of an unprepossessing academic is pushed to its tragicomic limits in this highly pleasurable tale of unrequited passion

The Guardian - UK

A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown review – a crown jewel among royal biographies

The Private Eye satirist’s portrait of the late monarch is rich in vignettes, but also has a revelatory depth

The Guardian - UK

From Persia with love: the new one-woman play that’s good enough to eat

When Atoosa Sepehr fled Iran overnight for a new life in London, family recipes helped her stave off homesickness. Now her story has been turned into a drama – with mouthwatering onstage cooking

The Independent UK

Utah judge to decide if author of children's book on grief will face trial in her husband's death

An evidentiary hearing is set for a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him

The Guardian - UK

Sir Larry Siedentop obituary

Other lives: Political philosopher who wrote a well received book on the democratic deficit at the heart of the European Union

The Guardian - UK

Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle

The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism

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