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Carnegie medal promises immediate action over lack of diversity

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Unsung women emerge from the footnotes of history

Liam McIlvanney wins Scottish crime fiction award named after his father

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Jack Kerouac letter to mother recounts ‘On the Road’ adventures

Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize

Tom Watson says ‘deep state’ claim by Corbyn aide ‘a bit John le Carré’

George Orwell archives added to Unesco Memory of the World register

Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize

Germaine Greer likens rape victims' trauma to her fear of spiders

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Haruki Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel prize

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The 50 biggest books of autumn 2018

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BBC short story prize selects all-female shortlist for fifth time

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Bob Woodward's Fear sells more than 750,000 in first day

Yiming Ma’s 'deeply melancholy' tale wins BAME short story prize

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Trump blasts Woodward and threatens to 'write real book' on presidency

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Kate Bush to publish book of lyrics, introduced by David Mitchell

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SAS spy's memoir claims he 'probably saved Gorbachev's life'

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Waterstones buys Foyles 'in face of Amazon's siren call'

Brazil National Museum: as much as 90% of collection destroyed in fire

JD Salinger's teenage lover challenges her 'predator' reputation

'I'm a popularist': Trump struggles with Bannon's coaching in Woodward book

Trump dismisses Bob Woodward’s book: ‘Lies and phony sources’

Moroccan authors say teenage rape case hits 'new level of unspeakable'

Elizabeth Siddall: pre-Raphaelites' muse finally gets her own voice, 150 years after death

Doctor Who regenerates as Little Miss for Mr Men books

Bob Woodward's book details Trump's chaotic and dysfunctional White House

British hotelier’s Spanish civil war experience to be adapted for film

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