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Best books about London: Tales that capture the essence of the world's best city

From the satirical to the sublime, these books are simply, quintessentially, London

Evening Standard

Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati and former BBC executive among honours

Gulati has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the cultural industries.

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin and Imelda Staunton get damehoods in king’s birthday honours

Others honoured from cultural world include the writer Monica Ali, choreographer Wayne McGregor and children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

The Guardian - UK

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VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction

Judges praised Klein’s Doppelganger for its ‘courageous’ study of truth in politics and called Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night a ‘masterpiece’ of historical fiction

The Guardian - UK

Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June

The Guardian - UK

Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

The Guardian - UK

Would I use AI to write my novels? I’d get better results from a monkey with an iPhone

I asked ChatGPT to improve my latest novel and lost no sleep over the results. But I do worry about diverse voices being crowded out, says novelist Monica Ali

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Judges announced for Women’s Prize for Fiction and inaugural Non-Fiction award

The winner of both prizes will be announced on June 13.

The Independent UK

Standard’s Stories winner will ‘go on to great things’

About 1,300 writers entered the competition and were asked to explore the theme of ‘belonging’

Evening Standard

‘People still do not want women to succeed or be equal. While that is true, you need Virago’: 50 years of the warrior publisher

Formed to ‘break the silence’ for female voices and still as essential and influential as ever, fans and founding members pay tribute to the trailblazing feminist press

The Guardian - UK

Brick Lane by Monica Ali audiobook review – survival, freedom and fate

Anneika Rose and Zubin Varla star in this retelling of Ali’s bestseller about a young Bangladeshi woman who makes her life in east London

The Guardian - UK

Reader, I lived with him: why a happy ending doesn’t have to mean marriage

As more couples rip up the rulebook, attitudes towards romantic relationships are becoming less clear-cut – and art reflects that. Should we be celebrating a new kind of happily ever after?

The Guardian - UK

We need to fight against censorship very hard: Salman Rushdie on being awarded the Freedom to Publish award at 2023 Nibbies

Booker-winner Salman Rushdie was awarded the British Book Award 2023 for Freedom to Publish in a ceremony in London on May 15, 2023.

The Times of India

In brief: Signal Fires; If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Love Marriage – review

A thoughtful novel about a family secret, an insightful investigation into animal intelligence and Monica Ali’s clever comedy of manners

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‘It’s really hardcore’: Nadine Dorries gives I’m a Celeb advice to Matt Hancock

Fellow political I’m a Celebrity contestant Nadine Dorries has told Matt Hancock there is one upside to eating creepy crawlies and other animal bits in the jungle before his first appearance this week.

The Guardian - UK

British Library to host Salman Rushdie celebration event

Writers including Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nigella Lawson will gather in London to share readings and reflections two months after the author was attacked on stage

The Guardian - UK

We Are Lady Parts leads South Bank Sky Arts award winners

Sitcom about Muslim female punk band wins best comedy as Opera North, Little Simz and Monica Ali also triumph

The Guardian - UK

Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics

Novelists including Johny Pitts, Monica Ali and Nina Stibbe – plus Observer critics – on their essential holiday books

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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

The Guardian - UK

Monica Ali ‘terrified’ of writing sex scenes in new novel

Brick Lane author says fear of winning Bad Sex award loomed over writing of latest book, Love Marriage

The Guardian - UK

Monica Ali says reaction to previous novel caused 10 years of depression

Brick Lane novelist said people were baffled when she wrote about Princess Diana rather than ‘brown people’

The Guardian - UK

Love Marriage by Monica Ali review – lurid turns and lashings of sex

The novelist is on familiar territory and great form with a tale of premarital tension that punctures family life and feminism

The Guardian - UK

Love Marriage by Monica Ali review – a culture-clash engagement

An entertaining exploration of multicultural British modernity - love, sex, class, politics, faith and family – from the author of Brick Lane

The Guardian - UK

Monica Ali: ‘My children say I’m the worst storyteller ever’

As the Brick Lane author returns with her first novel in a decade, she talks about her ‘catastrophic’ loss of self-confidence, the value of comedy, and critics in the family

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