A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. The Gathering by Partridge Boswell was picked from more than 21,000 entries by poets... Read more »
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The Bear and the Seed by Poonam Mistry, Templar, £12.99When Bear’s glorious forest disappears, he finds hope in a tiny seed – but he needs help from other animals to tend it... Read more »
Alexander Kluge, a German film-maker and author who elevated cinematic collages into an art form and won the top prize at the Venice film festival in 1968, has died aged 94, his... Read more »
Two experimental novels have jointly won the Queen Mary small press fiction prize, formerly known as the Republic of Consciousness prize. Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca Gransden, published... Read more »
This year’s Waterstones children’s book prize winner features a green blob tucking its child – a smaller green blob – into bed. Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob by Huw Aaron is narrated by... Read more »
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Sophie Mackintosh has established a reputation for speculative literary fiction about young women’s desires and suffering at the hands of men. Her new novel, Permanence, is less plainly political than earlier work,... Read more »
Tracy Kidder, an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who turned everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers, has died. He was 80. Kidder’s longtime publisher Random House... Read more »