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The Road to Bard: The thrills and challenges of launching Vancouver’s Shakespeare festival
Book excerpt: Bard on the Beach is the Camelot that I dreamed about, writes founder Christopher Gaze. It is a sharing of Shakespeare in an idyllic spot — Vancouver’s Sen̓áḵw/Vanier…
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Richard Thompson, Edinburgh review: ‘richly expressive’
He may be 77 now, but Richard Thomson still feels connected and vital, writes David Pollock
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International: 30 bestselling books of the week for May 23
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from more than 250 Canadian independent book stores.
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B.C.: 15 bestselling books for the week of May 23
The bestselling local books of the week, compiled by the Association of Book Publishers of B.C.
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‘True trailblazer’: British author and activist Maureen Duffy dies aged 92
Duffy wrote novels, plays and poetry, campaigned for gay rights, and was a ‘tireless advocate’ for authors’ rightsMaureen Duffy, author of more than 60 works and a pioneering activist for…
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Sonny Rollins’ Notebook Revealed His Inner Demons: ‘There Is Within Me a Force Working Hard for My Own Destruction’
The jazz legend's reflections are detailed in The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, a collection of personal journal entries spanning from 1959 to 2010
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Insider’s Choice: New Scottish books to look out for in June
From beach reads to murder mysteries to dystopian thrillers, there’s something for everyone next month, writes Vikki Reilly
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Land by Maggie O’Farrell review: ‘her most ambitious novel to date’
Maggie O’Farrell sets herself some major challenges in her centuries-straddling new book, then soars gracefully above every one, writes David Robinson
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Novel about ‘Disneyfication’ of nature wins climate fiction prize
Hum, Helen Phillips’ third novel, featuring a woman whose job is taken by a humanoid robot, is a terrifying look into a future where AI rules and nature is scarceA…
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Noble Beasts by Lucy Waverley review: ‘A stunning historical novel’
Based on the troubled life of 19th century artist Sir Edwin Landseer, Noble Beasts is utterly captivating, writes Rachel Mackie
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How Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoons captured America: ‘One of our nation’s greatest journalists’
A new book looks back at the work of artist and journalist Garry Trudeau and how he told the story of a country’s highs and lows through a comic stripIn…
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What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers review – the secrets of our search history
The company’s data editor trawls through billions of queries to deliver a portrait of the world’s preoccupationsAs anyone who has procreated this century knows, childrearing involves daily rounds of online…
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The Repentants by Kate Foster review: ‘soap operatic’
It may be billed as a ‘thrilling feminist historical novel’, but some of the plot contrivances in Kate Foster’s new book are too tenuous to be convincing, writes Stuart Kelly
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The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams review – twisted love story from a cult writer
Williams follows her prize-winning debut with a gothically overstuffed tale of a cynical young woman in a crumbling university townMissouri Williams’s darkly absurd and wilfully grotesque debut novel, The Doloriad,…
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Ben Elton: ‘I was the biggest comic in Britain – now Netflix doesn’t want me’
Comedian and writer Ben Elton on staying close to his famous friends and why he turned down dinner with Margaret Thatcher
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Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this monthAs part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve…
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From Gilead to Ladyland: how the rebellious women of literature offer hope in dark times
After visiting an island brothel in Bangladesh, the novelist was inspired to write an imagined uprising. She explores the radical fictional worlds where women have the powerIn the spring of…
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FHU alumnus launches medical textbook
An alumnus of Family Health University, Dr. Joseph Adam Dadzie, has made history by becoming the first graduate of the institution to author a medical textbook, marking another significant milestone…
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How Matthias Jügler accidentally wrote the most controversial novel of the year
The author was accused of fabrication and retraumatising grieving parents with his novel about forced adoption in the GDR - but it's something every German has heard about, he says
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Plot twist: bookstores in India are alive
Independent outfits are opening at a pace not seen in years. The new format is smaller, more curated, more local, and the business is increasingly bolstered by cafés and events
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Beyond the shelf | Indian bookshops are now third spaces
Love of books is not the only thing its patrons share; bookstores are now points of community and engagement
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What is missing from the Guardian’s 100 best novels list | Letters
Readers share their reflections on the best works of fiction in English, and ask whether popularity or lightheartedness disqualified books from considerationAs an avid reader, I was excited to go…
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Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’
The Booker prize-winning novelist and screenwriter shares the tune he’d want played at his funeral and why he’d have a couple of pints with Charles Dickens but not threeYou’ve written…
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Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review – smart reflections on love, desire and power
This heartfelt story of attraction and friendship, shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction, is sensitively read by Dan BottomleyThe debut novel from Rozie Kelly – shortlisted for this year’s…
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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Honey by Imani Thompson; Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre; The Final Chapter by CB Everett; The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani; Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa PerryHoney by…
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel
This moving work about an irascible woman in her 70s who conducts her most intimate relationships through letters has been shortlisted for the Women’s prize Epistolary novels were once all…
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Lily King: ‘I couldn’t get past the first 20 pages of Pride and Prejudice’
The Women’s prize-shortlisted author on being obsessed with Judy Blume, hating Jane Austen at first, and the joys of Tove JanssonMy earliest reading memory The Little Engine That Could. My mom…
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April
Luke Kennard, Sophie Ratcliffe and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsThis is a really good year for new…
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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
An imposter monkey, an underworld princess, art’s female trailblazers, and YA tales of fear, family and friendshipOur World: Nigeria by Bunmi Emenanjo and Diana Ejaita, Barefoot Books, £7.99Part of a…