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Bookmarks Thursday 05 Feb 2015                                                                                                                                       g Welcome to Bookmarks                                                                                                                                     Welcome to our new weekly books email, which will bring a snapshot of the latest news, views and reviews direct to your inbox every Thursday. As a subscriber to our Guardian Book Club email, we thought you'd be interested to stay on top of the latest from Guardian Books. If you'd rather not receive this in future, you can unsubscribe here. Today's top stories                                                                                                                                  More » Harper Lee's 'lost' novel was intended to complete a trilogy - agent Agent reveals plan for abandoned third novel and dismisses manipulation claims as ‘nonsense’  The Liberty Tree review – Murray Armstrong on the life of Thomas Muir The gripping story of the Scottish radical and his country’s first fight for democracy holds surprising lessons for the SNP  Waterstones reduces losses despite dip in sales Britain’s biggest bookshop chain narrowed losses to £3.8m in 2014, while sales slipped by 5.9%  Arab Jazz by Karim Miské review – murder in the Parisian melting pot This ambitious crime debut, set on the home turf of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket killers, couldn’t be more topical  Rereading Stephen King, chapter 31: Dolores Claiborne Personal, rather than supernatural demons give this vivid, first-person crime-confession novel its enduring power  Most viewed in Books                                                                                                                       More » Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult  Mansplain is Australian word of the year The portmanteau word beats binge watching, bamboo ceiling, lifehacking and selfie stick to top list of additions to Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English  Late Fragments review – how Kate Gross prepared to die The mother of young twins was ‘wired for happiness’: it shows in this deeply affecting memo to her family, written as she was dying of cancer  Latest reviews                                                                                                                                        More » A Spool of Blue Thread review – in defence of Anne Tyler In her 20th novel, the American chronicler of domestic life slyly dismantles the myth-making behind all our family stories  Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller review – ‘urgent, eloquent, fearless’ In the third instalment of her memoirs, Alexandra Fuller turns her unsparing, biting wit on her 20-year marriage, as she abandons Africa for Wyoming  Holy Cow by David Duchovny review – Fox Mulder reveals his funny side How refreshing to read a novel by a Hollywood actor that is not aiming for literary cool  Talking Points                                                                                                                                        More » Which is the first book you remember reading? As we approach a million followers on Twitter, we’re celebrating with a series on our favourite books. We’ve started by chatting about earliest book recollections – here are some of our readers’ fond memories  Welcome to Bookmarks, our new books newsletter Get our latest literary news, book reviews, podcasts and more delivered to your inbox every Thursday  February’s Reading group: Caribou Island by David Vann This month’s title was drawn from a list of your favourite recent books - and it’s the first novel from the author of Legend of a Suicide  Latest podcasts                                                                                                                                        More » VS Naipaul, William Dalrymple and Shobhaa De – books podcast All the colour of the Jaipur literature festival 2015, with Amish Tripathi, Alberto Manguel and Bettany Hughes  How to draw                                                                                                                                          More » Viviane Schwarz

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