The Artist by Lucy Steeds has been named this year’s Waterstones book of the year. The novel, which is set in 1920s Provence and blends mystery with a love story, also took... Read more »
Rabih Alameddine has won the National book award for fiction for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), a darkly comic saga spanning six decades in the life... Read more »
Thousands of copies of Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book have reportedly been withdrawn and “pulped” in the wake of the renewed scrutiny over her links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The... Read more »
The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs. Stephanie... Read more »
My earliest reading memory When I was about four or five, I think. I was living in Long Melford, Suffolk, with my foster parents, and my foster dad was trying to teach... Read more »
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, was the driving force behind a purge of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who had investigated Donald Trump, a new book reveals.... Read more »
Richard Ayoade, Guy Jenkin, Sandi Toksvig and Nussaibah Younis are among eight authors in the running to have a pig named after their novel in this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for... Read more »
The organiser of the Black British book festival, Selina Brown, announced earlier this month that the festival will launch a publishing collaboration with Pan Macmillan, focusing on “raw talent”, in particular writers... Read more »
Donald Trump picked Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary as a personal favour to his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski despite objections that she was “obviously unqualified”, according to a new book.... Read more »