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Durham Book Festival unveils 2025 line-up
ATV Today
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August 17, 2025
Featuring Pat Barker, Ann Cleeves and Jonathan Coe… Durham Book Festival has announced its 2025 programme, bringing together a wide range of writers and cultural figures for the annual three-day event in October. Running from 10–12 October, the...
Canine Chaos, Markus Zusak Author Talk At Bay Library
The National Tribune
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August 18, 2025
“Street fights, park fights, public shaming, property trashing, stomach pumping, general untold carnage and the odd police visit. That’s what readers of THREE WILD DOGS and the truth can expect,” says Samantha Fenton. The coordinator of...
The Expansion Project by Ben Pester review – surreal workplace satire
The Guardian
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August 18, 2025
“I knew she wouldn’t leave the floor, but still I felt the slow panic coming on. A supermarket form of dread – you expect to find the lost child in the next aisle, but the next aisle is empty, so you push on to the next … [until] there are not...
Frankly review: 'Suddenly, Sturgeon-Salmond psychodrama makes sense'
The Herald (Scotland)
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August 18, 2025
Macmillan, £28 THERE is a classic episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? in which Bob and Terry are desperate to avoid the England score. Welcome to the world of the Frankly reviewer. The past week has been spent trying to shut out what...
Aurora Orchestra review – the Famous Five at BBC Proms
MusicOMH
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August 17, 2025
Nicholas Collon and the Aurora team deliver yet another stunning from-memory performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s well-known and ambiguous Fifth Symphony. Although Shostakovich’s 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk received huge public acclaim –...
History Book: The Proclamation of Rebellion
World - North Carolina
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August 18, 2025
Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Monday, August 18th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It...
Researchers uncover a novel way platelets can suppress inflammation
Medical News
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August 18, 2025
Platelets are probably best known for their role in blood clotting, making scabs and related, if less salubrious, contributions to heart attacks and strokes. But these tiny, saucer-shaped blood cells have other physiological duties as well,...
China’s rising beef demand driving novel farm-to-consumer models
FoodNavigator-Asia
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Chinese lifestyle service provider Quhuo has partnered with NIU World, a local food group in China, to launch a chain brand incubation platform with a farm-to-consumer model that is aimed at delivering premium fresh beef. This strategic...
Stars shock Zambia, book Madagascar date in CHAN quaterfinals
Star
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Harambee Stars players celebrate Ryan Ogam's goal against Zambia at Moi Stadium, Kasarani/CHARLENE MALWA Harambee Stars have booked a scintillating date with Madagascar in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) after...
Music review: A Night of Jazz with Linda May Han Oh
In Daily
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August 18, 2025
The Helpmann Academy’s annual jazz awards concert took on an unusual form this year, with featured guest artist, the internationally renowned and Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh, performing alongside the top graduating...
Book tells MEMO story of sharing
Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
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August 17, 2025
For more than 20 years, a dedicated group of volunteers have made it their mission to send life-saving medical equipment to countries all over the world, and now that story is being shared in a new book detailing their dedication and success....
Latest novel in thrilling Lincolnshire-based crime series set to be published
Lincs Online
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August 18, 2025
A bestselling crime author is set to release the fifth book in his gripping series based in Lincolnshire. Secrets from the Grave, the latest story in Jack Cartwright’s Deadly Wolds series will go on sale on August 21. Jack CartwrightSet once again...
Harold Mikal Smart publishes book of poems
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 18, 2025
Features Laurel V Williams 33 Minutes Ago Former primary school prinicpal Harold Mikal Smart with a cope of his latest book, Colours - A collection of poems. - Photos by Lincoln Holder Harold Mikal Smart, 75, of Vistabella, San Fernando, has...
Book Week 2025: Here’s everything the Best Picks team are reading and rating - from viral reads to New York Times-bestselling books
Seven News
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August 18, 2025
It’s Book Week, which means if you’re a parent, you’re possibly scrabbling around frantically for a Frozen costume, Harry Potter wand or Cat in the Hat outfit. But it’s important to remember amidst the mad costume dash that what Book Week is...
Unblocking writer’s block
Mindanao Gold Star Daily
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August 18, 2025
- Advertisement - CAGAYAN de Oro has only two malls whose cinemas have remained open. The other malls have simply given up, perhaps with no thanks to Netflix. The first mall of the two has cinemas whose chairs smell like sweat. The second mall has...
Pakistan promotes cultural and literary ties at Southern China Book Fair
The Nation
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August 18, 2025
BEIJING - Pakistan’s Consul General in Guangzhou, China, Sardar Muhammad, attended the 2025 Southern China Book Fair to promote cultural ties and literary exchange, Gwadar Pro reported quoting a statement from the Consulate General. The fair,...
Arborescence review: Rhett Davis' novel takes 'tree change' to a new level
Arts Hub
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August 18, 2025
Get ready for a fascinating experience when you open this book. In the world Rhett Davis has created, some people are turning into trees. They arboresce. This is happening in a world recognisably like our own, except that artificial intelligence...
Local author releases children's book set in Cedar Mountain
The Transylvania Times - North Carolina
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August 17, 2025
A new children’s book written by Flo Phillips, a descendant of the Stone family, is bringing smiles, nostalgia and hope to the Cedar Mountain community, according to a news release. “The Cousins Go To Cedar Mountain,” illustrated by Janice Coward,...
Scots MP blasts Nicola Sturgeon for refusing to say she was wrong on gender reform in book
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 18, 2025
A Scottish Labour MP has blasted Nicola Sturgeon for failing to "admit she was wrong" about gender reform in her book. Joani Reid said the former first minister's "deranged gender reform bill... would have endangered thousands of women." She also...
The pitfalls of peer review
The Critic
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August 18, 2025
Peer review has long been regarded as the sine qua non of academic rigour and integrity. An editor or funding body approaches subject experts to advise them on the qualities and weaknesses of a particular article, book or grant proposal. On the...