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Historian Julian Jackson wins the Duff Cooper prize for non-fiction

His editor got a laugh at the ceremony for a jibe at Michael Gove

Evening Standard

Belfast writer Lucy Caldwell winner of Walter Scott Prize 2023

Caldwell scoops £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during Second World War

The Independent UK

Belfast writer announced as winner of Walter Scott Prize 2023

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

The Independent UK

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

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

The Guardian - UK

'I'll have to bring John to the job site': iconic carvery closes

Owners 'John' and Be Truong said old customers visited to say goodbye.

Newcastle Herald

‘Going to get some Thai food’: Indiana police pulled over U of I homicide suspect 2 weeks before his arrest

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, whom police have arrested in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in November, was stopped twice by Indiana law enforcement while he and his father made a cross-country drive from Pullman, Washington, to Pennsylvania in mid-December.

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Memoirs, cookery and must-read novels: the best books of 2022

Fiona Lensvelt has your guide to the best last-minute buys before Christmas — there’s something for everyone here...

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10 famous people Nottinghamshire has given the world

Celebrated sports stars, actors and musicians have come from Notts

Nottingham Post

Review: 'Act of Oblivion,' by Robert Harris

FICTION: A page-turning historical thriller about a manhunt for the killers of an English king.

Tribune News Service

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – regicides on the run

In 1660, after the Restoration of the monarchy, two of Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers fled to America to escape execution. Harris is at his best in this fictionalisation of their escape and the quest to find them

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Fairy Tale by Stephen King and Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris.

The Independent UK

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – a master writer leads us on a 17th-century manhunt

This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment

The Guardian - UK

Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

‘We want a queen who is like a parent’: Observer writers down the decades on the monarch’s reign

A selection of this newspaper’s writing about the monarch since she became queen when, as the fashion editor wrote, ‘surprise is an undesired quality’

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Seven Glasgow street characters locals have loved from Harry the Hat to Hairy Mary

From robot dancers to eccentric sellers in the Barras, there's been plenty of Glasgow characters that have captured the hearts of locals.

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Rory Stewart mulls a return to the political fray

In today’s Diary: Rory Stewart ponders a return / Gary Lineker says more footballers will come out / Guilty Feminist on the ‘trans debate’ / Robert Harris couldn’t invent partygate

The Guardian - UK

Meet the former Nazi rocket scientist who all too accurately saw the future

As well as serving in the SS and a second act as a Nasa engineer, Wernher von Braun wrote a Martian sci-fi novel with a prescient twist…

Wales Online

Rising Damp and Home to Roost creator Eric Chappell dies aged 88

Eric Chappell was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in September 1933

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The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights

The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas, Stanley Tucci’s charisma and his current favourite cookbook

The Independent UK

The Fear Index: Adaptation struggles to live up to Robert Harris’s ingenious techno-thriller

Josh Hartnett’s performance and the intriguing premise are enough to keep ‘The Fear Index’ rolling along, but the production sometimes lapses into cliché

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Josh Hartnett’s capitalism-crushing thriller The Fear Index

In Sky Atlantic’s new Robert Harris adaptation, a hedge funder has an algorithm that can destroy the world’s financial markets. Plus: First Dates and Forbidden Art. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power

David Rintoul is the authoritative narrator of this thriller about the negotiations between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the leadup to the second world war

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