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Lilian Thuram: It’s time to speak out and denounce every act of racism

In partnership with Media City

Lilian Thuram is releasing a new book called 'White Thinking'

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Government says Amazon lobbied against French bookshop protection bill

Senator Laure Darcos claims the tech giant lobbied the French government for months in an attempt to stop proposals that would level the playing field for its beloved bookstores.

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'Lovely Bones' author issues apology to man wrongly accused of rape

Anthony Broadwater was jailed for 16 years in 1982 for the rape of Sebold but was exonerated earlier this year after a reexamination of his case.

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Christmas at the Dickens Museum: Festive joy from a master storyteller

The Charles Dickens Museum has been a reflection of life in middle-class Victorian London since 1925. Each year it embraces the author's love for Christmas by putting on festive events and displaying new collections.

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Designer who created looks for Cher and Marilyn Monroe releases book

The coffee table book will chart Bob Mackie's life and showbiz career amongst the glitterati of Hollywood.

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George Floyd biography announced for spring 2022

Robert Samiels and Toluse Olorunnipa will author "His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice," covering Floyd’s life from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal wins France's Goncourt Prize

The winner of the Goncourt Prize receives a symbolic cheque of 10 euros but a guarantee that their novel will be published in thousands of copies

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South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The Promise'

The judges called Galgut's novel a "tour de force."

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Dan Brown introduces his book 'Wild Symphony' to Czech readers

Poetry, classical music, and colourful pictures in a children’s book... a rare combination from an author of fascinating mystery novels that draw on history to create breathtaking thrillers.

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World's biggest book fair opens its doors in Frankfurt

From 20 to 24 October, Frankfurt Book Fair will welcome visitors from all around the world, but in a smaller edition due to the pandemic.

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Prize winner Carmen Mola and a long line of gender-swapping pseudonyms

In the wake of Spain's €1 million Planeta literature Award controversy, we reflect on the authors of times past that used pen names, and why they chose to.

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At Denmark’s Human Library, you can read people like a book

The Human Library invites people to 'publish' their story in 30 minute conversations with 'readers'.

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Comics: Astérix returns in 'Astérix and the Griffon'

Astérix and his red-haired best friend Obélix make a return in this brand new adventure and the last story that Albert Uderzo was able to supervise.

Living

How can poetry help us wake up to the climate crisis?

Poetry cannot fix the climate crisis - people can, and the more our empathies and imaginations are stirred the better.

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Who is Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate?

The Nobel Committee have just announced novelist and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. We reflect on the achievements that got him there.

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Books that spark your senses: 7 escapist novels for the hungry mind

Many of us fell back in love with fiction during lockdown. Here's a list of novels that can really take you out of yourself.

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Prix Goncourt: 'no conflict of interest' concerning Camille Laurens

Didier Decoin says everything is above board but isn't keen on writer and judge Laurens' critical timing.

Cult

Ancient astronomy manuscript resurrected by Uzbek heritage initiative

In partnership with NAESMI

The first true-to-the-original facsimile copy of the manuscript of Images of the Fixed Stars, an ancient astronomy manuscript by one of the most famous Muslim astronomers of all time has been resurrected by Uzbekistan's heritage initiative.

Cyprus

Cyprus removes school textbook over praise of Turkey founder Ataturk

Cyprus said that the contents of the English textbook were "completely inappropriate and unacceptable".

People

This adventurer let social media plan her trip across Europe

"I decided that I would set aside a month in my diary and set out on a journey into the unknown from the back garden of my London home, armed with nothing more than a bivvy, a backpack and a devil-may-care attitude. "