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Data shows that Patterson’s 14-year run as readers’ overall favourite has given way to the Gruffalo authorCrime writer James Patterson’s long-running streak as th […]

We’re delighted to let our readers know about a debut author, Justine Lewis! Justine is from Canberra, the beautiful sunny capital of Australia. She has been […]

A former student at the School of American Ballet dissects an art form that too often plays host to obsession and bullyingWhen Alice Robb was little, she wanted […]

  Good Choices by D K Snyder in Cease, Cows Jay jumped off his locker in the first grade hallway. The school thinks it might be to do with his condition. There’s a […]

This sublime study of love, trauma, memory and loss explores the legacy of childhood abuse in Ireland’s Catholic institutionsThere is a kind of writing so rare a […]

Founding editor says 500 pitches rejected this month and their ‘authors’ banned, as influencers promote ‘get rich quick’ schemes One of the most prestig […]

STM Publishing – February 2023 cOAlition S to end financial support for transformative agreements and journals cOAlition S, the consortium of research funding a […]

Authors in the Tent is a professionally filmed series of interviews with established and emerging authors conducted in a tent Ona Russell purchased during the […]

Lost in Time. A.G. Riddle. 2022. 455 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: On the anniversary of his wife’s death, Sam Anderson visited her grave. It was a c […]

The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town In Stories and Photographs. Chana Stiefel. Illustrated by Susan Gal. 2022. 40 pages. [Source: Library]First […]

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If something has been published for over thirty years, I’ll talk about things that could be spoilers. But I’ll try and be discreet when I answer, because there are […]

I’m astonished that anybody managed to get him to fill out the questionnaire, and that it was still there when they woke up.

colleendoran:I still haven’t been able to get my Twitter account back, but security has frozen the account in the meantime, and I’ve been able to protect my […]

Could artificial intelligence offer a fairer and more efficient way of policing?San Francisco’s board of supervisors recently voted to let their police deploy r […]

A tribute to the spirit and resilience of Ukrainians who have kept hope, and poetry, alive since the Russian invasion(for the outpouring of poems by many who have […]

A real-life murder reimagined in interwar England, a gripping pair of mysteries set in Australia and the dark pursuit of a missing girl in London are among this […]

  One Body Too Many An insurance salesman arrives with an appointment to sell a $200,000 life insurance policy to reclusive millionaire Cyrus J Rutherford. […]

A reappraisal of colonialism by an Oxford professor strains credulity and ill serves his aim of defending ‘western values’In 1857, in the wake of the Indian mut […]

I expect it’s the same reason you don’t murder children. **I am obviously assuming for this answer that you don’t murder children. If it turns out you do murde […]