The GuardianCustomers raises £1m for UK's indie booksellers amid lockdown verified_publisherThe GuardianFour months since it launched, Bookshop.org – billed as an alternative to Amazon – has generated £1m in profit for independent bookshops in the UK, the website announced on Monday. Set up by Andy Hunter,...
The GuardianLiterature Poem of the week: The Human Voice from a Distance by Judith Willson verified_publisherThe Guardian - Carol RumensThis week’s poem is from Judith Willson’s impressive second collection, Fleet. Central to the collection is the figure of a 19th-century Londoner, Eliza S, who was taken to court and accused of deserting...
The GuardianAmanda Gorman 'Shocked by the uproar': Amanda Gorman's white translator quits verified_publisherThe Guardian - Alison FloodThe acclaimed author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has pulled out of translating Amanda Gorman’s poetry into Dutch, after their publisher was criticised for picking a writer for the role who was not also Black....
The GuardianNews Off with their heads! Why are Lewis Carroll misquotes so common online? verified_publisherThe Guardian - Alison FloodAs Oscar Wilde famously never said, don’t trust Goodreads as a source for quotes. A month after the Royal Mint released a new £2 coin to celebrate HG Wells with an inaccurate quotation (and a tripod with...
The GuardianKazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro review – another masterpiece verified_publisherThe Guardian - Alex PrestonIn a 2015 interview with the Guardian, Kazuo Ishiguro revealed what he claimed was his “dirty secret”: that his novels are more alike than they might initially seem. “I tend to write the same book over...
