Graphic novelist Posy Simmonds wins prestigious French comics award

Gordon Burn prize announces ‘electric’ shortlist

Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors

Lindsey Graham ‘threw Trump under the bus’ in Georgia case, book says

Lynda La Plante and James Lee Burke share Diamond Dagger lifetime award

‘Every school should have a library’: Philip Pullman calls for new UK laws

John Lewis review: superb first biography of a civil rights hero

Review finds libraries in England suffer ‘lack of recognition’ from government

Rare copy of The Amazing Spider-Man No 1 sells for more than £1m

‘Sexual pleasure a gift from God’ but avoid porn, Pope Francis advises

Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books

Novelist breaks with German publisher amid call for wider cultural boycott over Gaza

Annotated version of Andreas Vesalius’s masterwork on human anatomy up for auction

‘This person should not be president’: Kamala Harris takes hits in book on Biden

Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the West Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far right texts

Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76

Dracula writer Bram Stoker revealed as a humble minute taker for actor charity

Russia designates popular writer a foreign agent over Ukraine stance

Palestinian Authority minister to publish diary of life during Israel-Hamas war

‘Wokery’, ‘safe word’ and ‘forever chemical’ added to the Oxford English Dictionary