January 28, 2020
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 263 (22-Jan to -Jan 28)

1. Michelle Obama wins Grammy for Becoming audiobook

2. Coelho deletes children’s book co-written with Kobe Bryant

‘3. The Undefeated’ Wins Caldecott Medal, While ‘New Kid’ Picks Up Newbery

4. New Nancy Drew comic celebrates beloved sleuth’s 90th birthday by killing her

5. Wales in India: Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist Announced at Jaipur Festival

 

January 21, 2020
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 262 (15-Jan to -Jan 21)

1. Jack Reacher series author Lee Child ‘quits and lets brother step in’

2. UK Costa Book Awards Names Short Story Finalists

3. World Book Day 2020 launches Share a Million Stories 

4. Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR Tolkien, dies

5. Anthony Bourdain’s new travel book to be released in October

 

 

 

 

January 14, 2020
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 261 (8-Jan to -Jan 14)

1. Leri Price Wins 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

2. Copies of the book ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’ seized, claims Mohammed Hanif

3. Elizabeth Wurtzel, a controversial writer, dies

4. Singular ‘they’ voted word of the decade by US linguists

5. The New York Public Library’s most checked-out book of all time is a story about a little boy enjoying a snowfall

January 7, 2020
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 260 (1-Jan to -Jan 7)

1. Barack Obama’s book list of 2019

2. Sonny Mehta, venerable publisher known for spotting great books, dies at 77

3. Emma Watson hides copies of Little Women across London

4. Lizzo bashes author’s claim that she’s only popular due to ‘obesity epidemic’

5. Racism dispute roils Romance Writers Group

December 24, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 259 (18-Dec to 24-Dec)

1. Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ wins $25,000-DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019

 

2. End of an era for book publisher Penguin

3. George RR Martin opens bookshop next to his cinema in Santa Fe

4. How readers saved Galley Beggar Press

5. JK Rowling in row over court ruling on transgender issues

December 10, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 259 (4-Dec to 10-Dec)

1. Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship restored after 40 years

2. Mr Men books accused of sexism because Mr Clever mansplains to Little Miss Curious

3. BBC News presenter alluded to joint victory with Margaret Atwood but failed to give the name of Bernadine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other

4. Frugal Instagram star gets book deal

5. Women writers dominate Amazon’s 2019 bestsellers lists

 

December 3, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 258 (27-Nov to 3-Dec)

1. Bad sex award goes to Didier Decoin and John Harvey

2. Nobel prize for literature hit by resignations

3. Malayalam poet and writer Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, 93, has been selected for the Jnanpith Award in 2019

4. Dalai Lama’s first children book to be published by Puffin

5. 10-digit ISBNs being phased out

November 26, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 257 (20-Nov to 26-Nov)

1. Chloe Aridjis and Daniel Saldaña Paris named as 2020 winners of Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award

2. Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures To Adapt Stormzy-Published ‘Teaching My Brother To Read’ For Television

3. 2019 National Book Awards announced

4. Publishers Continue the Battle Against Book Tariffs

5. Walter J. Minton, Publisher Who Defied Censors, Dies at 96

November 19, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 256 (13-Nov to 19-Nov)

1. ‘Maoism’ Author Julia Lovell Wins Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize

2. Politician Asked Locals to Gift Him Books, Now He’s Donating Them to School Libraries

3. Kit de Waal named FutureBook Person of the Year

4. Tickets for Elton John Waterstones book signing sell out in 10 seconds

5. Giant Publisher Macmillan Goes To War Against Libraries

November 12, 2019
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 255 (6-Nov to 12-Nov)

1. Women’s writing began much earlier than supposed, finds academic

2. Climate strike named 2019 word of the year by Collins Dictionary

3. Neil Gaiman confirms that work is already underway on Sandman season 2 for Netflix

4. University of Western Australia’s decision to close publishing house sparks outrage

5. Jailed Turkish author Ahmet Altan freed after three years