It has been one of the films of the summer so far – the tale of Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, who embark on the 630-mile South West Coast Path walk... Read more »
Raynor Winn, the author of The Salt Path, has described enduring some of the “hardest days” of her life as she defended her memoir against allegations that parts of it were fabricated.... Read more »
Frederick Forsyth, the author who turned his adventures as a journalist and work with MI6 into bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness aged 86. Forsyth brought a reporter’s eye to... Read more »
A novel about a Palestinian woman who participates in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. Palestinian journalist Yasmin Zaher took home the £20,000... Read more »
As the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescapable: she had two sons, and both died by suicide.... Read more »
It is an irony that she herself would have revelled in: Barbara Pym, the author who punctured the social strictures of 20th-century Britain, worked as a censor during the second world war.... Read more »
“I have had relationships with humans, but I’ve also loved a lot of people in stories,” Sayaka Murata, the Japanese author of the bestseller Convenience Store Woman, confides a few minutes into our... Read more »
The Australian bestselling children’s author Aaron Blabey has signed an eight-figure deal with the UK, US and Australian arms of Macmillan. The publisher announced the deal on Wednesday, contracting the actor turned... Read more »
A heartwarming children’s story describing the lives of a First Nations family living on a Lutheran mission in the 50s has won Australia’s richest literary prize. Nukgal Wurra author-artist Wanda Gibson collected... Read more »