David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women, the Telegraph has reported. Walliams, one of Britain’s most successful children’s authors, was... Read more »
A writing team led by the One Day author, David Nicholls, and that includes Caitlin Moran is bringing Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ to the small screen... Read more »
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The... Read more »
Alan Hollinghurst has been awarded the 2025 David Cohen prize for literature, one of the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious literary honours, in recognition of his lifetime’s achievement in fiction. The prize,... Read more »
1. Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia Ian Foxley at home in Yorkshire. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian “What neither man knew was that... Read more »
The award-winning Israeli author David Grossman has described his country’s campaign in Gaza as a genocide and said he now “can’t help” but use the term. “I ask myself: how did we... Read more »
Zadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life... Read more »
David Szalay, 51, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna with his wife, having previously moved in 2009 to Hungary, his father’s birthplace. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the... Read more »
David Nicholls, Dolly Alderton, Caroline O’Donoghue and Kaliane Bradley are among the writers in the running to have a pig named after their book. The authors have been shortlisted for the Bollinger... Read more »