Irish writer becomes first novelist to win award twice, with story of a gay relationship set during founding of the US A “searing, magnific...

Bravo Two Zero author, who didn’t learn to read until he was 16, says his experience working in schools shows that a box-ticking approach to...

The actor will remain as producer and star of the Warner Bros caped crusader movie due to be released next year Ben Affleck has dropped out...

The former children’s laureate has cancelled all appearances in the US, while Comma Press says in 2017 it will publish only authors from ban...

Award for fiction given posthumously to Georgia Blain, while Randa Abdel-Fattah takes people’s choice award The Indigenous Australian playw...

State’s board of education throws out controversial legislation that would have required warnings to be issued of ‘sexual content’ in texts ...

Trumpertantrum, trumpkin and trumponomics are among a fresh crop of pejorative terms that may find a place in the OED, say lexicographers M...

Drinks brand, which has supported the award since 2014, says it is refocusing marketing strategy on non-English speaking countries The wome...

Val McDermid, chair of this year’s judges, hails a selection that crosses divide between arts and sciences Crime writer Val McDermid, who i...

Distinctive-voiced actor was Oscar nominated for Midnight Express and the Elephant Man, as well as being the victim of the notorious ‘chestb...

Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view after alleging Till harassed her in a grocery store. 62 year later, it has emerged her story was...

Harryplax severus takes name from secretive Hogwarts teacher Severus Snape A species of crab that managed to elude capture for 20 years aft...

Is Nineteen Eighty-Four too obvious? Readers suggest books on the rise of a US oligarchy, alternative facts – and a president who won’t live...

History of London’s Authors’ Club reveals plot by two members to return General Franco to mainland Spain from La Palma in 1936 It’s the kin...