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Book thief who stole more than 1,000 manuscripts ‘wanted to cherish them before anyone else’

Filippo Bernardini impersonated hundreds of people in the publishing industry to obtain work by Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney and Ian McEwan, but never intended to leak the books

The Guardian - UK

Michael Pascoe: A sense of perspective, that’s the gift 50 years in journalism has given me

The privilege of journalism is its licence and duty to question and observe in order to interpret and report.

The New Daily

Filippo Bernardini admits to stealing unpublished manuscripts from famous authors

In a bizarre case, an Italian man named Filippo Bernardini has admitted to stealing over 1,000 unpublished manuscripts majorly written by bestselling international authors, reported the BBC. And some of his targeted authors were literary giants like Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood!

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Scots mum says miracle daughter is gift from tragic baby son she lost on New Year's Day

Nicole Brown's son Micah passed away from a rare condition on New Year's Day 2022, but today she celebrates with his newborn little sister, Miah.

Daily Record

James McAvoy reveals two authors hinted he was miscast for their projects

The Glasgow-born actor, who has starred in a variety of book to film adaptations by Stephen King, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Philip Pullman, and more.

Daily Record

Daniel Craig’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

With Craig about to return as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, we take a look through the blond Bond’s action-packed filmography

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Coe: ‘We’re a nation driven by emotion and not by reason’

Tackling Brexit, Boris and his mother’s death during the pandemic, Jonathan Coe’s new state-of-the-nation novel puts Britain on the couch

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Ian McEwan's Lessons, his most autobiographical novel, is a new experiment in vulnerability

Lessons is Ian McEwan’s most autobiographical novel to date. It is the story of a man’s life, but it is also the story of a man making his life into a story. It exemplifies the risks and rewards of living a life shaped from within by the logic of literature.

The Conversation

Policy of secrecy leaves authors with ‘no inkling’ works are being set for NSW’s year 12 exams

Delia Falconer and Nikki Gemmell latest writers to find out their works were selected for the HSC – after the exams

The Guardian - AU

Ian McEwan says JK Rowling’s transgender views are ‘hardly worth a death threat’

‘The culture seems to have forgotten how to disagree,’ author said

The Independent UK

Ian McEwan says JK Rowling’s transgender views are ‘hardly worth a death threat’

‘The culture seems to have forgotten how to disagree,’ author said

The Independent UK

Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’

The beloved writer of the Wolf Hall trilogy and Beyond Black has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

The Guardian - UK

Robert Cremins: Over time, McEwan just gets better

The Booker Prize-winning novelist is an explorer at heart.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Lessons,' by Ian McEwan

FICTION: An ambitious novel charts the relationship between an ordinary man's travails and decades of geopolitical upheaval.

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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Lessons by Ian McEwan and The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman.

The Guardian - UK

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – life-and-times epic of a feckless boomer

McEwan takes aim at the postwar generation in this old-fashioned but generous and humane portrait of individual indecision against the backdrop of history

The Guardian - UK

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – this boy’s life

The novelist’s attempt to capture a man’s existence over eight decades of personal and global change makes you long for the more melodramatic turns of his other books

The Independent UK

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan’s Lessons to Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes

Martin Chilton reviews six of September’s biggest new books for our monthly column

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Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’

The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’

The Guardian - UK

Send us your questions for Ian McEwan

Got something to ask the author? Send it our way and we’ll put it to him

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

The Independent UK

Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Salman Rushdie's agent says the writer is on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck and abdomen on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture

The Guardian - UK

First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned

Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood

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