Lucy Apps’s debut novel tells the story of 19-year-old Gloria, who is living in east London with her mum in the summer of 1999. Gloria has a learning disability and is past... Read more »
Schools in England are moving away from pupils dressing up as their favourite literary characters for World Book Day, with experts telling MPs they feared the cost of costumes undermined efforts to... Read more »
A debut novel exploring the long-term effects of prejudice and secrecy on a lesbian couple in the 1980s has won the Nero Gold prize. Claire Lynch was presented with the £30,000 award... Read more »
Katie Kitamura, Susan Choi, Kit de Waal and Lily King are among the authors longlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction. Awarded annually and now in its 31st year, the prize... Read more »
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Here we are once more: back to the glory days of the New Hollywood that emerged from the ashes of the old studio system in the 1960s and 70s. Our cast is... Read more »
Warner Bros has announced it is to open a 21,000 sq ft Harry Potter store on Oxford Street, one of London’s busiest retail thoroughfares. The studio’s Global Experiences wing says the two-floor... Read more »
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The Danish author Helle Helle’s They, published in the UK in a pin-sharp translation by Martin Aitken, charts the subtle and shifting bond between a teenage daughter and an ailing mother in prose... Read more »