May’s Best Reviewed Fiction ‹ Literary Hub
Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, and Miranda July’s All Fours all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by...
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‘I give parents permission to lose my books behind a radiator’
If you have young children, you probably have complicated feelings about Julia Donaldson’s brilliant and beloved children’s book The Gruffalo. On the one hand, it’s your kid’s favourite bedtime story...
Read moreJohn Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone, dies aged 69 | Books
John Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone and The Asylum Dance, has died aged 69 after a short illness. He died on 29 May, his publisher has confirmed.Though mainly known...
Read moreTop 7 Stories Most Recommended By Experts –
Narrative non-fiction attempts to present facts in a way that is both exciting and accurate to events. The best examples of this genre transport readers to the frontlines, so to...
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Illinois School District Board Withdraws from State Celebration of Children’s Literature Over Book on Racism and Antiracism
(NEW YORK)— PEN America today criticized a decision by the Millburn School District in Illinois to pull out of the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award, a statewide program celebrating children’s...
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The Bookseller – Rights – Hachette Children’s Group scoops two AI-focused books
Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two AI-focused non-fiction books by Brian David Johnson and Neal Layton. Wren & Rook publishing director Laura Horsley acquired world rights to Johnson’s What You Need...
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Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
THE SHORT book, long underestimated, has a lot going for it. To start with the prosaic: if you want to get through more volumes, short is shrewd. Slender books can...
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Eve Bunting, 94, Dies; Tackled Adult Themes in Children’s Books
Eve Bunting, who published her first children’s book when she was 43 and wrote some 250 more over the next 50 years — retelling whimsical fables from her native Northern...
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The Bookseller – News – Men drawn to books written by other men, analysis from the Women’s Prize Trust suggests
Men overwhelmingly reject books written by women in favour of male authors, new research by the Women’s Prize Trust (WPT) suggests. The data drawn from Nielsen BookData’s consumer research, collected...
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Children’s Books Written by Celebrities
What do Greg James, Channing Tatum, and Meghan Markle all have in common? While these celebs might seem poles apart, they have all embarked on the same side hustle, one...
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