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A note to students: read the greats of Northern Irish literature. Then watch Derry Girls

I tried to explain what it was like for me growing up in Northern Ireland. Then I found that this great sitcom did it better, says Caroline Magennis, reader in 20th and 21st century literature

The Road Dance review – boiling fury in tale of rape and denial in the Hebrides

There’s a wild rage against the backdrop of amazing landscape in an adaptation of John MacKay’s novel about a sex assault in a crofting community

An ethical problem aired for online travellers by Airbnb

The travel site is trying a new approach to ease problems of over-tourism

Harry Potter and the missing sketches: JK Rowling’s first drawings of boy wizard

Author’s original drawings for her first Hogwarts novel to appear in print – alongside the return of a mysterious wizard

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to give books to refugee children

Singer’s global initiative to offer a book each month to 200 refugee children in London until they turn five

‘No reward or recognition’: why women should say no to ‘office housework’

Accepting too many necessary yet thankless tasks is holding all women back, say the authors of The No Club

Tiny 1911 Bible rediscovered at Leeds library in lockdown

People urged to come and view 5cm Bible found during survey – but do bring a magnifying glass

Anonymous, anti-capitalist and awe-inspiring: were crop circles actually great art?

Dismissed as the work of pranksters, these mysterious flattenings should now be seen as stunning examples of non-profit art for all, says this bestselling author, who recalls the wonder they injected into the 1980s

Hero or hoax? The man who broke into Auschwitz – or maybe didn’t

Denis Avey’s publishers plan changes to new editions of bestseller as researcher raises alarm

Children’s book on the Queen’s jubilee given cold shoulder by schools in Wales and Scotland

Details released of tale about Queen’s 70-year reign, which is felt to be too ‘Anglocentric’ by devolved governments

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper – review

A penetrating analysis of the connections that enabled an incestuous university network to dominate Westminster and give birth to Brexit is perceptive and full of surprises

Ian Fleming’s lost James Bond screenplay reveals a very different 007

With no Moneypenny and no M, a previously unpublished script reveals the author’s original ideas for Moonraker

Oxford University Press pulps ‘no longer appropriate’ Biff, Chip and Kipper book

The Blue Eye, which features ‘scary’ people in street market, has been withdrawn from sale after complaints

Charlotte Brontë’s $1.25m ‘little book’ of 10 poems returns home

Manuscript entitled A Book of Ryhmes measures 10cm by 6cm and was written by the author when she was 13

Previously unseen Lucian Freud etchings to be published for first time

Definitive study will include early versions of the revered 20th-century artist’s most famous creations

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