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How to look Parisian: a smart guide to French style

Inès de la Fressange and Sophie Gachet give out their secret tips and addresses to look like a stylish Parisian.

Iraq

Baghdad’s first female bookseller breaks barriers

Along one of Baghdad’s oldest streets, a new bookstore is making waves — not for the titles it sells but for who owns it.

USA

Sensational Trump book becomes an instant bestseller

'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' proved a huge hit on its first day on sale at US bookshops - and further afield

USA

'Fire and Fury' author defends book on Trump

In an interview on NBC's "Today" program Michael Wolff stood by his reporting and said he had talked to President for the book, which Trump has dismissed as full of lies.

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World News

Which European country has the best young readers?

Find out how your country fared in a new global reading and literacy ranking of year four students

Sweden

Nobel prize in literature: Everything you need to know about 2017 winner Kazuo Ishiguro

The Nobel prize committee called Ishiguro an "exquisite novelist"

USA

Hillary Clinton to launch 'revelatory' new autobiography

Hillary Clinton prepares for launch of 'revelatory' book.

United Kingdom

Jane Austen featured on new British bank note

Britain is to get a new ten pound bank note made of plastic and with the face of a famous woman on the back of it, the novelist Jane Austen.

United Kingdom

Paddington author Michael Bond dies

Bond, who created the beloved bear with a hard stare, died following a short illness.

Iraq

Meet the Baghdad man who turned his van into a mobile bookshop

Ali al-Moussawi is a bookworm from Baghdad in Iraq who has turned his love of reading into a career.

Netherlands

Dutch shop apologizes over Hitler colouring book

A Dutch retailer has been forced to apologise after it unwittingly sold copies of a colouring book featuring Adolf Hitler.

United Kingdom

A dash of magic on the fields of Staffordshire

The British Quidditch Cup took place in Staffordshire, central England this weekend.

United Kingdom

10 ways you can make a difference

Nowadays comics and cartoons are often more powerful and convey more messages than a simple photo

France

What bookstore employees do behind your back

With noise at a premium in libraries and bookshops, much of any fun to be had there needs to be visual.

United Kingdom

Philip Pullman fans rejoice! 'The Book of Dust' is coming...

British fantasy writer Philip Pullman, whose 'His Dark Materials' catapulted him to global stardom, returns to the fantasy world with a new trilogy.

USA

White House's 'Alternative facts' boosts sales of Orwell's 1984

A link has been established between skyrocketing sales of George Orwell's _1984_ and the propogation of 'alternative facts' from Trump's press secretary

USA

'Exorcist' author William Peter Blatty dies

The novelist and filmmaker who wrote “The Exorcist”, William Peter Blatty, has died at the age of 89 in Maryland.

Germany

Rising Mein Kampf sales in Germany shock publisher

Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's semi-autobiographical foundation of Nazi ideological thought, has experienced a surprising resurgence, says its publisher

United Kingdom

"Watership Down" author Richard Adams dies

Renowned children's author and creator of "Watership Down" Richard Adams has died aged 96.

United Kingdom

'The Sellout' by Paul Beatty wins Man Booker prize

An American has won the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize for the first time.