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Celebrities are not putting enough care into their children’s books, says author

Katherine Rundell said that ‘a high percentage’ of children’s books, published under a celebrity name, may have been ghost-written.

Evening Standard

Author hits out at celebrities who use ghostwriters for their children’s books

Katherine Rundell said that ‘a high percentage’ of children’s books may have been ghost-written

The Independent UK

From The Sheep-Pig to His Dark Materials: the best audiobooks for children and teens

As research reveals children want to listen to books rather than read them, here are some of the best audiobooks to enjoy

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A tribute to disappearing creatures

“Vanishing Treasures” by Katherine Rundell, is a passionate plea to save the planet’s living cabinet of curiosities

Salon

The best children’s and YA books of 2024

From a boy on a snowy midnight adventure to a gothic family caper via a young offender inspired by poetry, our critics pick their favourite titles of the year

The Guardian - UK

Author Katherine Rundell donates royalties to climate charities in Trump protest

All author royalties earned from The Golden Mole, published in the US this week as Vanishing Treasures, will help counteract ‘the election of a climate-change denier’

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo among books on Waterstones Book Of The Year shortlist

Previous winners range from Philip Pullman and Maggie O’Farrell to Charlie Mackesy, Paul McCartney and Katherine Rundell.

Evening Standard

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The week in audio: Origin Story: Russell Brand – Confidence Man; Lost Notes: Groupies; The Lion, the Witch and the Wonder – review

Brand’s strange journey from darling of the left to cancelled crank makes for an informed podcast, while a power imbalance impairs rock groupies’ tales. Plus, writer Katherine Rundell on the power of children’s fiction

The Guardian - UK

The best childrens books of 2023, from The Bowerbird to Impossible Creatures

With authors such as Katherine Rundell, Julia Donaldson and Frank Cottrell Boyce, these are the most brilliant gifts for the smaller readers in your life

Evening Standard

Why no concern at prisoners being paid just 50p an hour to work?

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Waterstones Book of the Year 2023: Katherine Rundell wins top prize with Impossible Creatures

The book was described as “as close to perfect as fiction gets: immaculate world-building, dazzling storytelling, and adventure galore"

Evening Standard

Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with ‘immediate classic’

Impossible Creatures, about a realm where all the creatures of myth still live, was declared ‘as close to perfect as fiction gets’ by the retailer’s head of books

The Guardian - UK

John Vaillant wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with ‘highly relevant’ work on wildfires

Fire Weather, which looks at the blazes that ravaged Canada’s prairies in 2016, is a book that ‘forces you to ask some questions of yourself’, judges said

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In brief: The Golden Mole; Mistletoe Malice; The Deorhord – review

Dazzling essays detail the world’s most wondrous creatures; Kathleen Farrell dissects a dysfunctional family Christmas; and Hana Videen decodes an Old English bestiary

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A joyful picture-book account of family life; a magical fantasy series begins; an addictive epistolary friendship; fast-paced feminist YA; and more

The Guardian - UK

‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones

Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell celebrates the writer who inspired her own fantasy debut

Evening Standard

Paul Simon: ‘I fear hearing loss may mean I never play live again’

‘I really hope that I can. I really miss it’ Simon said yesterday

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The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Weirdo by Sara Pascoe and The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks.

The Guardian - UK

Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links

An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Evening Standard

British Book Awards 2023: The full list of this year’s winners

Davina McCall and Sir Salman Rushdie were given accolades at this year’s ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Katherine Rundell: ‘My party trick is knowing Jane Austen’s Emma off by heart’

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

The Guardian - UK

Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Prize for writing by 11-14-year-olds inspired by ‘imagination and curiosity’ of Martha, who died in 2021 aged 13

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