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Like many of the wise women in her books, Sharon Blackie lives miles from anyone. Hers is the only house on the road winding through a valley deep in the Yorkshire Dales. The... Read more »
Author and poet Rebecca Perry has won the 2026 Waterstones debut fiction prize for May We Feed the King, praised as a “delicious and dream-like tale”. Chosen from a shortlist of six... Read more »
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Matt Haig, the bestselling author of titles including The Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, is opening a bookshop in Brighton. The writer plans to open the shop, called Golden, by... Read more »
Every child in year 6 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and P6 in Scotland, will be given the bestselling book Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell this Christmas, to coincide with the... Read more »
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Almost 14% of Ireland is bog: vast swathes of moss-carpeted land, below which layers of ancient history have been compounded into mulch-black turf. Captivated by their otherworldly beauty, Seamus Heaney wrote some of his... Read more »
The National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded. The government should also commit to a National... Read more »