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William Boyd once wrote a Bond novel, Solo, but Gabriel Dax, the spy in The Predicament, is, unlike Bond, only reluctantly in the espionage business and really would like to devote himself full time to his other job, as a travel writer. Right now he’s finishing off his book on…

Why sanitise or sugarcoat the classics? New adaptations of Austen and Brontë could explore everything from slavery to death in childbirth, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Nothing will ever be the same for the disgraced royal or the other Windsors. He can still live in Royal Lodge, but it’s a terrible blow to his sense of entitlement, says former Guardian royal correspondent Stephen Bates

Baek Se-hee, the author of the global bestseller I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, has died at 35. Her final act of donating her organs saved five lives, but her sudden death has left many questions unanswered.

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Ahead of the BBBF this weekend, authors who’ll be in attendance explain the crisis in publishing of Black writing, and why coming together is the solution

Stuart Pritchard reads between the lines on a selection of smartphones designed with the bibliophile firmly in mind

Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, has died at 35, with her decision to donate her organs—saving five lives—seen as a poignant extension of her message of empathy and hope.

Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross was written and set during the rise of nazism. It shows both how extremism takes hold, and the moral certainty needed to resist it, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins