Benjamin Dean | 'I did want to be able to write something that I could almost ‘give’ to my younger self'

When Benjamin Dean began to pursue his dream of writing fiction, he did not expect his début to be a novel for children. “I never really anticipated writing for children at that time,” he tells me, speaking on the phone from his London home. His middle-grade novel Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow will be published by Simon & Shuster Children’s Books in February, but it began life as a story for older teenagers. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Sky News’ Sharri Markson tells Benjamin Netanyahu Labor is ‘hostile’ to Israel in ‘confidential’ meeting | The Weekly Beast

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For Jamie Quatro, There’s ‘Something Mystical’ About Writing

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Give me more Putinas, por favor: A Conversation with Giannina Braschi, by Sandra Guzmán

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Wainwright Nature Writing Book Prizes: Three 2024 Shortlists

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