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Hannah Barnes’s book about the rise and calamitous fall of the Gender Identity Development Service for children (Gids), a nationally commissioned unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London, is the result of intensive work, carried out across several years. A journalist at the BBC’s Newsnight, Barnes has based her account on more than 100 hours of interviews with Gids’ clinicians, former patients, and other experts, many of whom are quoted by name. It comes with 59 pages of notes, plentiful…

Barnes & Noble is launching a $40-a-year membership program that promises to offer 10% discounts, free shipping, a tote bag and bigger lattes to its members. In asking customers to pay an annual fee for a range of perks, the largest bookstore chain in the U.S. is following some of its competitors, including Amazon. com Inc. and Walmart Inc., whose respective Prime and Walmart+ programs offer no-minimum free shipping, among other benefits. The bookseller is…

Jimmy Barnes is in “constant and severe pain” and will undergo back and hip surgery as soon as possible to address it, meaning he will postpone half a year of performances while he recovers.In a statement issued on Tuesday, the 66-year-old musician said: “I’ve been jumping off PA’s and stomping around stages for nearly 50 years, but it’s finally caught up with me. I’ve had niggling back and hip issues for years, but things suddenly got a lot worse over the last few weeks and I’m now in constant and severe pain.“As…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special left fans with multiple questions in their minds. Luckily, the film’s director, James Gunn had the time to go on Twitter in between his DC Studios duties, to answer questions that fans had about his latest film. Unfortunately, one of his questions left a bad taste in some people’s mouths. Warning, spoilers ahead. One fan asked Gunn on Twitter how Nebula got Bucky’s arm in the holiday…

| Rodney Barnes will follow his two Image Comics creator-owned series Killadelphia and Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog, with a new comic book series, Monarch, with artist Alex Lins. All the while being the co-creator and executive producer of Winning Time for HBO and developing new projects for them. Monarch is the latest book from his Zombie Love Studios imprint, a new tale of "terror and high-stakes science fiction that hits close to home!" Rodney Barnes says "I've always loved films like Attack the Block and War of the…

Kit Young, Amita Suman, and Freddy Carter as the Crows.Image: Netflix | David ApplebyCovering New York Comic Con is not a sprint, but a marathon. And every now and then you get to take a break and really enjoy a panel. Within the crash of cosplay, incredible artists, and a barrage of news, the Shadow and Bone panel with author Leigh Bardugo and Netflix series stars Amita Suman (Inej Ghafa), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), and Ben Barnes (General Kirigan/the Darkling) was a breath of fresh air.This…

Image: Gizmodo/GettyGizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.If you’ve ever tried to research how the Big Bad Tech Monopolies of our time got so big and bad, you’ll find that these stories are typically pretty straightforward. Google, for example, started as a search engine company in the mid-90's, and spent decades buying and bullying competitors until it swallowed just about all of the search…

| Alice Cooper returns to comic books for a new project written by Rodney Barnes of Killadelphia and his new comics publisher Zombie Love where he is working with Snoop Dogg and Xzibit. But this book is coming from Dynamite Entertainment instead, drawn by Edu Menna, and represents Alice Cooper's return to the medium. In 1979, Alice Cooper starred in the Marvel Premiere #50 loosely adapted his From The Inside album. Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli created a comic for him a few decades later for The Last Temptation Of Alice…

| Rodney Barnes has released new information regarding his publishing imprint Zombie Love. With which he has teamed up with rapper/producer Snoop Dogg and Snoopadelic Films for the horror graphic novel Tales From The Crip, playing off the 50s EC comic book Tales From The Crypt. Like that magazine, this will be a horror anthology that will feature several urban-themed horror stories. Rodney Barnes will create the comic while Snoop Dogg will star in the role of the Cryptkeeper. Snoop Dogg As Cryptkeeper in Tales From The…

My earliest reading memoryAlmost certainly one of the Noddy books. I deeply believed in the reality of Toyland and wanted to drive a car like Noddy’s (even though it was a taxi).My favourite book growing upSpeed Six by Bruce Carter, about a pre-war Bentley, painted British racing green, which takes on and beats various postwar foreign cars – Maseratis and so on – at Le Mans. Perfect fodder for a little Little Englander.The book that changed me as a teenagerI was dressed in army uniform for a Combined Cadet Force field…