What we're reading - 23 August 2019
Opinion - BooksFriday, 23 August 2019
The BookBrunch team reveal what's on their bedside tables
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And so I wrote
Opinion - BooksThursday, 22 August 2019
When acting roles dried up, Sara Alexander turned to fiction - and the offers started to come in again
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David Cohen, founder of the David Cohen Prize for Literature, dies at 89
News - BooksTuesday, 20 August 2019
Set up in 1992, the £40,000 prize aspires to be a 'British Nobel'; winners include Tom Stoppard, Hilary Mantel and Seamus Heaney
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Review copies of The Secret Commonwealth coming soon
News - BooksMonday, 19 August 2019
Riot Communications to send out embargoed editions of The Book of Dust Volume Two this month; embargo ends 28 September, book published 3 October
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Bestsellers - week ending 18 August 2019
News - BooksTuesday, 20 August 2019
Number 1 at Foyles Charing Cross Road and Waterloo this week is This Is Not Propaganda, Peter Pomerantsev's survey of the age of disinformation
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What we're reading - 16 August 2019
Opinion - BooksFriday, 16 August 2019
The BookBrunch team reveal what's on their bedside tables
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The Folio Society teams up with Marvel for anniversary title
News - BooksThursday, 15 August 2019
Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949 features introduction from Roy Thomas and contains a facsimile of the first Marvel comic
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Artist paints giant billboard live to launch Sanditon
News - BooksThursday, 15 August 2019
ITV adaption of Jane Austen's unfinished 1817 novel coming this autumn; Trapeze has TV tie-ins
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Bestsellers - week ending 11 August 2019
News - BooksTuesday, 13 August 2019
Greta Thunberg is number 1 at Blackwell's, while Sally Rooney's two novels are both in the top 5
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George RR Martin receives Nielsen Platinum awards
People - BooksMonday, 12 August 2019
In conversation with Dan Jones before 1,000-strong audience
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