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  1. Rebecca Hall obituary

    My partner, Rebecca Hall, who has died aged 78, was a woman with many gifts and interests – perhaps too many, to the detriment of her talent as a writer. Rebecca was a prize-winning screenwriter, adapting Klaus Mann’s The Volcano for a film by the German director Ottokar Runze in 1999; a clever poet in her book Fruits of Paradise (1999), a collection of daily thoughts, poems and philosophies; a fearless campaigner, who documented cases of medical malpractice in Indefensible Treatment (1985); and a determined advocate for animals in Animals Are Equal (1980) and Voiceless Victims (1984). Continue reading...
    theguardian.com/books/2026/apr

    #Fiction #Scienceandnaturebooks #Publishing #Animalwelfare #Books

  2. The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir

    It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage When The Salt Path came…
    theguardian.com/books/2025/aug

    #Publishing #Books #Culture #Autobiographyandmemoir #Scienceandnaturebooks
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