Sunday book news round-up #2: Booker, Eagle, McKee, Britney and more
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Hello there, and if you’re reading this you’re about to get a round-up of book news. That should be obvious from the title, but if you’re an AI then…
Read MoreThe International Booker Prize 2022 - shortlist
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THE shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2022 has been announced. So we’ve put together a round-up of the six titles included.
Read MoreHay Festival 2022 - info, tickets, lineup - latest
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This year’s (35th) iteration of the festival beloved by art, literature, thinker, Wales and Hay-on-Wye lovers will run from May 26th to June 5th .Things are shaking now though, so here’s the latest.
Read MoreChildren's author David McKee dies, aged 87
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HIGHLY-regarded Children’s author and illustrator David McKee has died, at the age of 87. McKee, the author of dozens of titles for children, including Elmer, Not Now Bernard and Two Can Toucan passed away after a ‘short illness’.
Read MoreBritney Spears' writing of memoir is 'healing'
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BRITNEY Spears has said that the process of writing her memoir has been ‘healing and therapeutic’.
The pop icon took to Instagram on Monday and shared the information in a post which seems now-removed.
Read MoreGendered reading bias fueled by 'ignorance' says Shannon Hale
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When it comes to children's fiction, an area in which little ones are trying to explore, learn, and enjoy themselves, we’d hope they can be given the freedom to read books that interest them, regardless of protagonist or topic.
Read MoreUS attempts to ban books in 2021 'unprecedented'
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…while we’re not fully sure what’s achieved in banning a book outright, but still it is always important to understand what the book is and why any potential restriction is being put forward.
Read MoreWorld Book Night 2022 - info and FREE audiobooks
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If you’re not familiar, World Book Night is an event put on each year by The Reading Agency, which itself believes in people “reading their way to a better life”.
Read MoreChampions, a ‘gay Romeo & Juliet’, a bear and Dylan Thomas
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Good morning and welcome to Sunday, where I’ve decided to not do a news story and instead round-up a few things from this week in the book world.
Think of it as a digest or tasty little…digestibles that can power your book-loving ways.
Read MoreEditor's blog waking up
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As I sit here on a fairly unremarkable Saturday, the dog is sleeping and the birds are tweeting, and I’m sat at a different desk, in a different place, on a different keyboard to a different computer writing this (again).
Read MoreHive rounds up Easter Book ideas for children
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The books and entertainment e-tailer has rounded up a selection of titles which children may love to read during the spring season and beyond.
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