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£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’

Editorial: A new study highlights the dangers of a modern rentier capitalism that perpetuates inequality through the generations

Queen Camilla opens house, refurbished after 18-month fundraising campaign, where you can stay ‘in the same room the Brontës slept in’

In its 25th year, the National Simultaneous Storytime event is inviting children from Australia and beyond to read a gentle story of migration, belonging and family – starring an inquisitive cat and a truck driver

An ambitious young writer tells a white lie to land a scoop in this dazzling debut interrogating the ethics of writers

It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we’d spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics. My father, an Indian, was also looking for something in Buddhist and Taoist texts that would…

Men In Love is a “sonic companion” to his new sequel to Trainspotting

In the year in which the groundbreaking activist would have turned 100, a new book looks at the enduring impact of his words and how they resonate today

Ten techniques for creating illustrations that carry emotion.

Judges for The Orwell Prize said they were “highly impressed by David’s dedicated commitment and the well-researched focus on timely challenges”

This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild ride