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Honey by Imani Thompson (Borough, £16.99)Thompson’s smart and incisive debut centres on Yrsa, a young Black woman studying for a sociology PhD and teaching undergraduates at Cambridge. Irritated by her solipsistic, over-privileged... Read more »
The Bafta-winning actor Katherine Parkinson has lauded the television series Rivals for its “radical” depiction of sex from a woman’s perspective. Speaking at a preview screening in Bristol, where much of the... Read more »
Frank Cottrell-Boyce has urged policymakers to treat children’s reading as a “right” rather than a parental duty, warning that Britain is failing to understand the emotional and social value of reading, as... Read more »
A debut poetry collection with themes including race, addiction and womanhood has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney took home the £20,000 prize – awarded to... Read more »
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Epistolary novels were once all the rage, from the epic Clarissa to the lurid fun of Dracula. They don’t come along very often now, perhaps because they can be tricky to do... Read more »
First-time fiction writer Ingrid Horrocks has won New Zealand’s richest literary prize for her debut short story collection, All Her Lives. The Wellington-based poet, essayist and memoirist won the prestigious NZ$65,000 (A$53,000,... Read more »
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