British novelist Ross Raisin has won the 2024 BBC national short story award for Ghost Kitchen, a story narrated by a bicycle courier and inspired by the gig economy. Raisin was announced... Read more »
South African writer Nadia Davids has won this yearâs Caine prize for African writing for her short story Bridling, described as a âtriumph of languageâ by the chair of judges. The prize,... Read more »
The former first lady Melania Trump has a memoir coming out this fall, Melania, billed by her office as “a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own... Read more »
A “boundary-pushing take on the police procedural” which features a human detective working with an AI sleuth in order to solve a missing persons case has won the coveted Theakston Old Peculier... Read more »
Billie Eilish has become the latest star to read a CBeebies bedtime story, having chosen a book that teaches children about interacting with nature. The Oscar-winning singer of What Was I Made... Read more »
Rose Tremain, 80, published her first novel in 1976 and has gone on to become one of her generationâs most admired talents, garnering numerous literary accolades along with a damehood in 2020.... Read more »
Alice Munro, short story master and Nobel Laureate, dies at 92 May 14 2024 Canadian author Alice Munro died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario, on May 13. She was 92.
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Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published | Children and teenagers
From the depths of his extraordinarily vibrant imagination, he famously conjured up Mr Benn, Not Now, Bernard, King Rollo and Elmer the patchwork elephant. Elmer and the White Bear, by David McKee,... Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. For centuries, the bildungsroman, or novel of education, has offered a window into a... Read more »