Children’s books show rise in racially minoritised characters, survey finds

‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, dies aged 83

Publishers launch initiative to highlight Palestinian authors and history

Carol Ann Duffy writes poem paying tribute to England’s female footballers

‘Bait and switch’: Liz Cheney book tears into Mike Johnson over pro-Trump January 6 brief

Omid Scobie’s book on royal family pulled from Dutch shelves over ‘error’

Almost a million children in the UK do not own a book

Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

Free speech groups criticise German ban on Russian journalists’ book

‘Soul-shattering’ Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize

Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom win the Polari prizes for LGBTQ+ books

Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize

Restaurateur and author Russell Norman dies aged 57

Jane Austen’s own copy of Curiosities of Literature to go up for auction

Trump called Iowa evangelicals ‘so-called Christians’ and ‘pieces of shit’, book says

Missouri library will ban porn star book – after 20 people on waiting list read it

Personal data stolen in British Library cyber-attack appears for sale online

Detained Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha released by Israeli forces

Canadian writers ask Giller prize to drop charges against pro-Palestinian protesters

Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says

Bob Mortimer wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for his ‘mischievous’ debut novel

‘America First’ Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene prints book in Canada

Newly discovered string quartet by Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess to have premiere

‘Incredibly overdue’: Minnesota library book returned more than 100 years later

No flatulence, no sex in trees: Victorian children’s sanitised Chaucer to go on display

AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87

John Vailliant wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with ‘highly relevant’ work on wildfires

National book awards: finalists use ceremony to call for Israel-Hamas ceasefire after sponsors pull out

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2023: Jessica Au wins for lauded novella Cold Enough for Snow

Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Democrats failed to defend House from Capitol rioters

‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year

Salman Rushdie receives award in rare appearance at New York event

‘Just call him a child abuser’: Trump told Walker to use slur against Warnock, book says

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt Canadian book prize

Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage

Campaigners save Bradford birthplace of Brontë sisters

Elon Musk biopic to be directed by Black Swan film-maker Darren Aronofsky

John le Carré’s son to write new George Smiley novel

John Burnside wins the 2023 David Cohen prize for amazing body of work

‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

Britney Spears memoir helping drive UK book market growth, says WH Smith

‘Success stories’: Historic England adds several sites to risk register but removes 203

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize

Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy

Furious Trump heaped scorn on own lawyer over trial date, book says

Jean-Baptiste Andrea wins Prix Goncourt for novel set in fascist Italy

‘Books keep our minds free’: US prisons ban reading materials at alarming pace

Charlie Chaplin’s son was ‘very cruel’ to me, says Barbra Streisand

Dorries claims Tory cabal called the ‘movement’ brought down Johnson

Dagger awards adds categories for ‘cosy crime’ and psychological thrillers

Bannon used Confederate code words to describe Trump speech, book says

WH Smith launches buy-back scheme for secondhand books

Liz Cheney calls new House speaker ‘dangerous’ for January 6 role