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In his first book, rapper Ziggy Ramo argues the dehumanisation of the first Australians is at the root of incarceration rates and gaps in life expectancy.

Cancellation of World Voices festival comes days after organization cancelled 2024 edition of its annual awards ceremony

DJ says the Booker Foundation should think about changing its name

In his intro to No Way Out, finally charting the long, strange trip the UK took from the fraught post-referendum days to leaving the EU in January 2020, Tim Shipman risks a comparison political biographers would shy away from. He declares an urge to match the epic and literary style…

Philip Pullman will help choose this year’s winners of award set up in memory of the keen young writer who died aged 13 in 2021

Richard Osman’s best-selling debut novel is being adapted into a film for Netflix

An ungrammatical egg; a demystifying approach to death; 10 new poets to read aloud; and a stunning gothic mystery

The British-Ghanaian author on having his mind blown by Malorie Blackman as a child, the allure of John Williams’s Stoner and why Zadie Smith made him want to write

A social and economic revolution observed through the lives of four women in their 30s