KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker | Australia news

KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker | Australia news

Global accounting giant KPMG has distanced itself from the Sydney writers’ festival, requesting its name be removed from the event’s website where it was listed as a corporate partner. The move follows... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 19th

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 19th

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KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker | Australia news

Old Songs by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns review – ancient tales of murder, maidens and magic | Books

In the old Scottish ballad, Tam Lin, a girl named Janet is warned by her family not to go near the well at Carterhaugh. There lurks an elfin knight who will take... Read more »
Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’ | Lancashire

Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’ | Lancashire

Reform UK has been criticised for withdrawing all Lancashire libraries from a scheme supporting refugees because it was not value for money – despite being free. Nigel Farage’s party said the region’s... Read more »
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell review – a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work | Toni Morrison

On Morrison by Namwali Serpell review – a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work | Toni Morrison

I have waited years for this book. But before I tell you what it is, I had better tell you what it is not. On Morrison is not a biography. Except for scattered references,... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 19th

‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel | Theatre

A new prequel to George RR Martin’s blockbuster fantasy saga Game of Thrones is to be staged this summer by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. The bestselling author, whose novels have... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 18th

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 18th

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The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova review – a poetic exploration of Russian guilt | Fiction

The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova review – a poetic exploration of Russian guilt | Fiction

M, a 50-year-old novelist living in an idyllic place by a lake, is travelling to a literary festival to give a talk. A sequence of events, mostly beyond her control, leaves her stranded... Read more »
KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker | Australia news

‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story? | Books

Every November, leading figures of French literature gather in the upstairs room of an old-fashioned Paris restaurant and decide on the best novel of the year. The ceremony is staid, traditional, down... Read more »
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