Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light

Keir Starmer ‘lacks clear sense of purpose’ claims Labour ex-policy chief

Millions wasted on attempt to create nationwide UK library website, campaigners claim

Jilly Cooper is made a dame in new year honours list

218-year-old library above Manchester pub prepares for £7m redevelopment

‘It’s a golden age’: poetry flourishes in Ukraine – but at a terrible price

Kerry Packer was proposed as mediator in Thatcher’s fight to stop Spycatcher memoir

Benjamin Zephaniah laid to rest in private funeral

Hanif Kureishi: accident ‘completely eradicated’ sense of self and privacy

‘No, that’s fascism’: the librarian who defied Russia’s purge of LGBTQ+ books

Murder mystery puzzle book Murdle tops UK Christmas bestseller chart

Tolkien and CS Lewis manuscripts among treasures made available to public in 2023

Mills & Boon launch ‘spicy’ Afterglow series to woo TikTok book lovers

Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author

Freud exhibition delves into a dramatic legacy in Latin America

Five years and 2m copies later, self-published author lands UK book deal

Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers

Bed bugs in books close London library

Patti Smith ‘in good health’ after being hospitalised in Italy

Publisher drops author for using fake accounts to ‘review-bomb’ peers

Paws for applause: Paddington set to star in stage musical

Cambridge University Library asked to return Book of Deer to Scotland

‘Freedom begins with a book’: incarcerated people to judge new US literary award

Agatha Christie’s family welcome diversity in new BBC adaptation

Murdered journalist Dom Phillips’ unfinished book to be published in 2025

Groundbreaking graphic novel on Gaza rushed back into print 20 years on

‘I’ve had death threats’: Real Happy Valley writer vilified in tweets by police

Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza

Danger Sound Klaxon! wins oddest book title award

Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics

British poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65

Keats scholar finds that Roman police investigated poet before death

Shakespeare’s First Folio: State Library of NSW takes the Bard’s ‘radical’ 400-year-old book out of the vault

Arthur Conan Doyle secretly resented his Sherlock Holmes creation, says historian

Royal book at centre of racism row barely stirs a ripple on London streets

Demand soars for Dutch first editions of book naming UK royals in race row