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The Richell Prize-winner’s novel, set in a near-future lutruwita/Tasmania, asks what does it mean to have hope in the face of climate crisis?

He wrote a string of books about life on London’s streets for young black men including the Crongton series.

A new book, Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid, has just been published in South Africa. Intended for young people but speaking to readers of all ages, the book explores what it was like living through this dark and racist period of segregation.

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The author’s suite of essays, originally conceived for broadcast, don’t always translate well for the page

Yael van der Wouden, Seán Hewitt, Yasmin Zaher and Rebecca Watson also in running for Swansea University’s £20,000 writers’ award, with winner announced on 15 May

A prosecutor has told a jury at a murder-for-hire trial that the Iranian government put a $500,000 bounty on the head of an outspoken Iranian-American journalist

Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK

A former Meta official’s explosive insider account sold 60,000 copies in its first week and reached the top 10 on Amazon

The late princess used her brother-in-law and sister-in-law's split as a learning opportunity for her own breakup.

Letters: Gill Saunders urges a rethink of the ban. Veronica Porter says everything should be done to encourage book ownership