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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
What’s the best software for organising your writing? in the forum Aspiring Authors 10 months, 2 weeks agoI might not be the right person to answer this question as I’m a big fan of LibreOffice. I like to put each chapter in a separate file and then add a section for each chapter linked to the files to get one master file. That way it “understands” chapters (at least as much as I need it to).
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Blog: Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-firstOisín Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meat […]
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Blog: House cats are leaving America in droves, our reporter Liz has more: from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 10 months, 2 weeks agoLiz: Ms Cat, why are you leaving? Ms Cat: ICE are arresting all the hamsters. Liz: But, you’re a cat… Ms Cat: Try proving that to ICE.
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Blog: ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoWhen Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he […]
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Blog: ‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoAs Neige Sinno’s critically acclaimed memoir about being sexually abused by her stepfather is published in English, she reveals how writing her story has helped s […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on modern folk horrors of the British Isles – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoContinue reading…
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Blog: We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essentialSometimes you need to […]
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Blog: US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoCalifornia cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John G […]
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Blog: My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoirA haunting exploration of a life shaped by literature and […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from
Seren in the group Seren Books 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from her collection ‘The Butterfly House’.
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Blog: Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime […]
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Christian Writer started the topic
What’s the best software for organising your writing? in the forum Aspiring Authors 10 months, 2 weeks agoWhat’s the best software for organising your writing? I’m using LibreOffice. Is there something better? Something that understands chapters and subsections?
Any one?
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Christian Writer joined the group
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Blog: The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant review – a Jamaican childhood from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe poet and writer returns to the May Day mountains in a gentle rumination on family and natureGo these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine […]
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Blog: Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo review – a gender-swapped Moby-Dick from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoA runaway orphan from coastal Kent is the protagonist in this tightly plotted reimagining of Herman Melville’s whaling classic“‘And now here I was, an accid […]
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Charles Maxwell started the topic
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Blog: The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is here – these are my must-reads in the running from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoFrom coming-of-age stories to sexual awakenings, these six titles have been recognised as future classics
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Blog: Scandal-hit creative writing website NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe US nonprofit, whose online community encouraged members to write a novel in a month, has been rocked by controversy in recent yearsNaNoWriMo, the US-based […]
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Blog: Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 3 weeks agoThe artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiographyIn 1966 a woman sat down at the Destruction in Art […]
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Blog: This month’s best paperbacks: Elif Shafak, Richard Ayoade and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 3 weeks agoLooking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from an engrossing study of Chinese women to a fun, loveable novel Continue reading…
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Blog: The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker review – an impossible tale from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 3 weeks agoA New York librarian is discovered unconscious in a park with no memory, in a mystery that challenges consensual realityWe first meet Jane O in the consulting room […]
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Blog: Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 3 weeks agoAmerican authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human c […]
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Blog: Women’s Prize for Fiction unveils 2025 shortlist featuring four debut novelists tackling identity, history and self-discovery from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 10 months, 3 weeks agoThe category is dominated by new voices, joined by previous nominees Miranda July and Elizabeth Stout
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Blog: Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months, 3 weeks agoThe author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victimIn the canon of British true crime, the case of Dr […]
