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The best Australian children’s books of 2023: Alice Pung, Davina Bell, Sean Avery and more

From picture books to young adult novels and nonfiction, one teacher-librarian picks her favourite reads

The Guardian - AU

The best children’s and YA books of 2023

From a bear who stockpiles dreams to a sisterhood of knights via a tiger sea captain, our critics pick their favourite titles for children and young adults

The Guardian - UK

2023 in books: Protests, bannings and the rise of AI helped shape the story of publishing

The publishing world made plenty of news in 2023, but not only because of the books themselves

The Independent UK

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Biography of the late Rep. John Lewis that draws upon 100s of interviews will be published next fall

An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist’s FBI files and materials from a planned book that was never completed

The Independent UK

Best ideas books of 2023

From psychology to AI, pandemics to popular culture, we survey the bigger picture

The Guardian - UK

Best crime and thrillers of 2023

A splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery, a fortune teller in Georgian high society and Indian mobsters make this year’s list

The Guardian - UK

In the Footsteps of Du Fu by Michael Wood review – the great poet’s progress

A superb evocation of the Chinese master and his travels

The Guardian - UK

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How the Roswell 'UFO' spurred our modern age of conspiracy theories

In 1947, a New Mexico rancher found mysterious debris on his land. UFO author Garrett Graff links the Roswell incident to the "deep state" conspiracy theories and misinformation of today.

WEKU

Invisible Generals: the Black military pioneers hidden in US history

Benjamin O Davis Sr and Jr were high-fliers in every way, the latter commanding the Tuskegee Airmen. The author Doug Melville, a descendant, is determined to give them their due

The Guardian - US

I revisited some of the worst games PC Gamer has ever reviewed to try to find something nice to say about them

A whole lot of bad games came out these last 30 years.

PC Gamer

Bennelong and Phillip: wrestling with our historical assumptions through the entangled lives of two very different men

Despite the inherent chance and coincidence of Australian history, there’s a certain sense of inevitability when we trace our national narrative in hindsight. The sequence of chapters in our textbooks and syllabuses seems logical and coherent. Colonisation follows European imperialism and exploration. Suffrage follows the discovery of gold. Federation is…

The Conversation

Britney Spears: The Woman in Me review – Raw, unfiltered and breathtaking in its rage

Fans of the pop superstar will be disturbed by the relentlessly bleak portrait painted by her globally anticipated memoir

The Independent UK

Britney Spears: The Woman in Me review – Raw, unfiltered and breathtaking in its rage

Fans of the pop superstar will be disturbed by the relentlessly bleak portrait painted by her globally anticipated memoir

The Independent UK

Sam Lansky: the ghostwriter who helped bring Britney’s troubled story to the page

American journalist and author Sam Lansky has reportedly helped to shape Britney’s globally anticipated memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’. Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, writes Annabel Nugent

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Stephen Rubin, publisher of 'The Da Vinci Code' and other blockbusters, dies at 81

Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life, has died

The Independent UK

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin gets personal in 'An Unfinished Love Story'

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s next book is a work of history that’s also close to home

The Guardian - AU

Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald review – illuminating biography of Dorothea Mackellar

The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work

The Independent UK

Elon Musk thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Russian ships, book claims

SpaceX CEO thrust into high-stakes diplomacy over Ukrainian Starlink access, new biography reveals

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Shopping, showjumping and a notorious goldfish sex scene: the bonkers world of the bonkbuster

In May 2023, Conservative British weekly magazine The Spectator ran a piece revealing the “guilty pleasures” of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Allegedly, he likes listening to the music of Michael Bublé, watching Emily in Paris – and reading the novels of Jilly Cooper.

The Guardian - AU

The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall review – a genre-defying epic

Spanning 1933 to 2181, this ambitious novel explores the future of humanity through the lives of a few women, zeroing in on capitalism, AI and violence

The Conversation

The sale of publisher Simon & Schuster is good news for staff and authors, but the long-term implications are uncertain

A year after the US Department of Justice blocked the merger of two of the world’s biggest publishers, a New York-based private equity investment firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co., has agreed to buy Simon Schuster.

WEKU

Paramount sells Simon & Schuster to private investment firm

Paramount Global has sold Simon & Schuster to the private equity firm KKR. The deal comes nearly a year after the Department of Justice blocked Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster.

Broadcasting & Cable

Paramount Makes $1.62 Billion Deal To Sell Simon & Schuster to KKR

Earlier agreement to sell publisher for $2.2 billion was blocked

The Independent UK

Simon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion

Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market

Broadcasting & Cable

Paramount Trims Streaming Losses in Q2, Adds 700K Par Plus Customers

Direct-to-consumer revenues spike 40% and stock surges in after-hours trading

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