With Hong Kong booksellers silenced, China now goes after exiled dissidents

No matter whether you are in New York, rural Germany or Hong Kong, you’d better think twice before criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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From Victoria Schwab to Justina Robson: The best female science fiction and fantasy writers you should read now

Victoria Schwab, an American living in Edinburgh, has had remarkable success in both the young adult and adult fields of fantasy writing, and her latest, A Darker Shade of Magic (Titan Books, £7.99), falls into the latter camp, which she writes as V E Schwab.



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The top 10 words invented by writers

I have long been interested in words but most specifically in the question of how a coinage makes it into the larger language, especially at a time when the English language seems to have more than enough words to sustain itself.



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