‘Why no female lead characters this year?’: The Guardian’s book team answered your questions | Books
That’s all, Folks! We’re signing off now. Thanks so much for all the interesting questions. It’s been great to see so much enthusiasm for books and for this shortlist in particular –... Read more »
The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, an illustrated guide to Britain’s threatened bird species, has been named as the Wainwright prize book of the year. Meanwhile, the prize’s... Read more »
It is late 2024, and an unnamed British author living in Paris is trying to write an essay on Gertrude Stein, the modernist writer and art collector. The author has been distracted... Read more »
Every child in year 6 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and P6 in Scotland, will be given the bestselling book Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell this Christmas, to coincide with the... Read more »
The National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded. The government should also commit to a National... Read more »
In a plot twist worthy of the ancient bards themselves, the hottest movie of the summer isn’t a superhero flick, or an alien-invasion yarn, or a crinolines-and-bonnets period drama. Instead, it is... Read more »
A new novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro is set to be published in March next year. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger, announced by his UK publisher Faber, is a spy caper.... Read more »
Zeno Sworder’s beautifully illustrated picture book Once I Was a Giant, which tells the tale of a tree transformed into a pencil who writes its own story, has won book of the... Read more »
A “highly original” nonfiction by Melbourne historian Clare Wright, charting the creation of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions – a seminal moment in Australia’s history of land rights – has won book of... Read more »