‘These books are pushing boundaries’: winners of £30,000 Inclusive Books for Children awards announced | Books

‘These books are pushing boundaries’: winners of £30,000 Inclusive Books for Children awards announced | Books

Six female authors have been crowned winners of the 2026 Inclusive Books for Children (IBC) awards. The literacy charity’s prizes celebrate the best UK-published inclusive titles for children aged one to nine.... Read more »
Evelyn Araluen wins 5,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards | Poetry

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards | Poetry

Evelyn Araluen has won both the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature and the $25,000 Indigenous writing category at this year’s Victorian premier’s literary awards, for her second poetry collection The Rot. Selected... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 25th

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 25th

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My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer review – how to make it in crypto | Books

My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer review – how to make it in crypto | Books

The narrator of Tibor Fischer’s eighth novel, My Bags Are Big, is a walking anachronism. Dan is “an old school crypto geezer” who hails from south London and lives in Dubai, where... Read more »
New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish | Judaism

New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish | Judaism

In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and patronage in the northern Italian city of Ferrara did something that would have been unthinkable, and very... Read more »
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Olga Ravn, Daniel Kehlmann, Ia Genberg, Mathias Énard and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among those longlisted for the International Booker prize, which recognises the best translated fiction and turns 10 this year.... Read more »
Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition | Stage

Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition | Stage

The number of plays attributed to the 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd has more than doubled in a major new edition. The forthcoming second volume of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd makes... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 25th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 24th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist | International Booker prize

Politics Without Politicians by Hélène Landemore review – could we get rid of Farage, Truss and Trump? | Politics books

No Donald Trump, Nigel Farage or Liz Truss; no Zack Polanski, Jacinda Ardern or Volodymyr Zelenskyy either. No political parties and no elections, but instead a random bunch of ordinary people chosen by... Read more »
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