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Penguin Books brought psychiatric ideas to post-war Britain through their inexpensive paperback list. This eclectic list ranged from general introductions to psychiatry and psychotherapy, to discussions of specific problems like depression and anorexia nervosa, and also large political issues such as propaganda and brainwashing.

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The series will reportedly be a reboot, with each season being based on a different Harry Potter book

The children’s author was famed for her intricate illustrations and the site in Epping Forest that inspired her – thought lost to storm damage – has been located still standing

Gloucester-based bookseller bought by the retail giant in 2011 will shut at the end of April

A brand new Harry Potter TV series that will be based on all seven books is reportedly in the works as producers come close to a deal, sources say

A devastated Japan, ancient Greece and the Philippines a century ago are among the settings for this month’s picks, while section 28 cannot stop a school romance

The winner of the prize for historical fiction will receive £25,000.

Three middle-aged sisters grapple with their mother’s imminent return to Nigeria in this immersive domestic drama of becoming and belonging in post-Grenfell London

Thousands empathised with the bestselling writer and shared similar experiences of disappointment