This time last year a rumour swept through the close-knit British crime-writing community, not whispered in a quiet moment in the billiard room but shared on group chats and message boards. The... Read more »
Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper. Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s... Read more »
Leah Williamson, Michael Morpurgo, Julia Donaldson and Richard Osman are among those who have thrown their weight behind a new nationwide push to get people reading for pleasure, as the government and... Read more »
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If much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James... Read more »
A seventh book in Rachel Reid’s gay romance series that inspired the TV drama Heated Rivalry will be out later this year but Australian fans are still struggling to get their hands... Read more »
Dream-Pedlary i. If there were dreams to sell.What would you buy?Some cost a passing bell;Some a light sigh,That shakes from Life’s fresh crownOnly a rose-leaf down.If there were dreams to sell,Merry and... Read more »
One hundred years of a unique literary rural life will be made available to readers and researchers after the British Library acquired the archive of Ronald Blythe. The author of Akenfield, a... Read more »
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