1. A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The book-posting operations have had a huge market impact, but will publishing their own titles cost them their serendipitous magic?Book subscription services are magic. A few clicks of a form and a bunch of new books , selected by talented curators, turn up at your door ...

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1. Rare letter offers glimpse into Bram Stoker’s early thoughts on Dracula

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   ‘Lord forgive me. I am quite shameless’, author playfully wrote in note weeks after horror novel published in 1897He had just unleashed one of the most famed gothic horror books on the world, a blood-curdling classic that chilled readers and has inspired countless authors...

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1. The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   From frogs to ferrets, an eye-opening account of the ways we affect the health of other species – and vice versaBefore entering Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden, visitors must walk over disinfecting mats to rid their shoes of bacteria or other pathogens. Next to the mats ...

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1. ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefrontResidents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefr...

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1. Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating lossMegan Hunter’s remarkable debut, The End We Start From, was a dystopic novella about an unnamed woman navigating new motherhood after an apocalyptic flood (Jodie C...

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1. Son of an agent, he became a film exec. But the movies weren't the same

   LA Times » 1 week ago

   Matthew Specktor grew up around celebrities during an era of bold filmmaking — only to see safe franchises dominate and studio movies lose their intimate strangeness...

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1. The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herselfMelinda French Gates is a woman who seemingly leaves little to chance. From girlhood she would write down goals fo...

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1. Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with itSamantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall from Baghdad back gardens. Yet when she asks for it ...

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1. Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her motherIn this novella from the three times Booker-shortlisted Anita Desai, a young Indian woman named Bonita is ...

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1. The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt...

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