Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 18th

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 18th

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Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge | Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge | Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner is writing a memoir about her rise to become deputy prime minister and her subsequent fall from grace, the Guardian can confirm, in a move that will be seen as... Read more »
Waterstones and Barnes & Noble owner looks to list booksellers on stock market | Retail industry

Waterstones and Barnes & Noble owner looks to list booksellers on stock market | Retail industry

The owner of Waterstones and Barnes & Noble is reportedly preparing to list the booksellers on the stock market. Elliott Investment Management, the hedge fund that owns the most popular bookstores in... Read more »
Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? | Books

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? | Books

In the decade leading up to the pandemic, nonfiction seemed unstoppable. Readers flocked to books that explained a world upended by Brexit, Trump, #MeToo and climate upheaval. Titles such as Timothy Snyder’s... Read more »
Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge | Angela Rayner

Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure | Books

Hay festival president Stephen Fry is backing the organisation’s new campaign to collect recommendations for the most pleasurable books to entice new readers, in a bid to combat falling literacy rates in... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 17th

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 17th

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Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? | Books

Bog Queen by Anna North review – a tale that could dig deeper | Fiction

Anna North’s fourth book, Bog Queen, is a stranded or braided novel. First “a colony of moss” speaks – or rather, does not speak, but “if such a colony could tell the... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 17th

Virginia Roberts Giuffre: Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1m copies in two months | Books

A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold 1m copies worldwide in just the two months after its release. Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on... Read more »
The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art | History books

The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art | History books

Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante scholar whose books argue for the relevance of the great Italian art and literature of the late middle ages... Read more »
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