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Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue in The Molly FilmsIt is arguably the most staggering piece of writing in James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, stretching over 60 pages and containing only two full stops.This year, Molly Bloom and her monologue will take centre stage at a celebration of Bloomsday on 16 June – the day...

Books by bestselling author Grigori Chkhartishvili, who writes under pen name Boris Akunin, removed from shelvesRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesRussia’s justice ministry late on Friday designated one of the country’s most popular fiction writers a foreign agent because of his opposition to Moscow’s war in Ukraine.The historical detective stories of Boris Akunin, the pen name of Georgian-born Grigori Chkhartishvili, used to be bestsellers...