My first response to reading The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai was envy. Why can’t I write like this? Simple, heartwarming and unputdownable even to me sitting in Coimbatore,...
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A double-extortion ransomware player has exploded onto the scene with several attacks in two weeks, wielding innovative locker malware and a slew of evasion tactics for covering its tracks and...
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"Our narrator is compromised and untrustworthy, but she’s fully visible." Photo / SuppliedBOOK REVIEW: “Nobody grows up wanting to be a translator,” The Honeyeater’s 26-year-old narrator, Fay, says of her...
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Updated Jul 4, 2024, 13:15 ISTFrank Cottrell-Boyce has been named the new Children's Laureate, a role celebrating creativity and promoting children's literature. He aims to address inequality and ensure all...
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Sarah Brooks’ The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands is a brilliant and unique story of a train journey that changes the world. In 1899, on the eve of a...
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And Other Stories has acquired a three-book deal with Morgan Talty in a "unprecedented" sum for the publisher following a four-way auction. Senior editor Tara Tobler acquired UK, Europe and...
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In The Coin, Yasmin Zaher’s novel about a young Palestinian woman doing her best to build a life that works for her in New York City, cleanliness is, indeed, close...
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Book of the Month is a subscription service dedicated to delivering handpicked, quality fiction books to its members. This monthly book box service is based on a unique selection process,...
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The beloved children's author announced a fifth instalment in her Girls series, revisiting the characters aged 40. This should come as no surprise - her gift is in interpreting the...
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The Howick Intermediate School team competing in the Kids’ Lit Quiz was comprised of, clockwise from left front, Carlos Tait, Sheldon Small, Ella Van Stipriaan, and Lucy Milnes. Photo supplied...
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