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The Scottish author and poet is a warm, wry companion in an autobiographical collection of poems, written in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths

The horror author on Dr Seuss, the radicalism of Earl Thompson, and the perfect whodunnit

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter winner Arundhati Roy

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award

The Duchess of Sussex was spotted last year with a blue sticker on her wrist. Will Hosie talks to the man who sold it to her

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

Literature in translation has long been reliant on indie presses to bring work such as the South Korean author’s to wider audiences

"Everybody should feel important enough to tell their story," Taddeo says on the desired effect of the adaptation

The author has simultaneously written a love letter to Australia and hate mail to those who lay waste to the Earth. Read it and weep