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Abdellah Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat, Morocco. He currently lives in Paris. He is the first writer from north Africa – and in fact the Arab world – to openly declare that he is gay. In 2006, he came out in a highly publicised article in the Moroccan…

Sadiq Khan’s book launch was interrupted by protesters opposed to the Ultra low emission zone’s expansion - but he says they did not succeed in ‘spoiling’ the event

Jim Perry returned Benson Lossing's "A History of the United States" to the St Helena Public Library in California 96 years after it was due in 1927

Author Jarvis, from Salford, was presented the prize by HRH Princess Beatrice

The man behind the popular Northumberland festival answers our questions

This entertaining co-production of “Anna Karenina”, which transfers from Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre to Bristol Old Vic next month, “began as a dare”, said Fergus Morgan in The Stage. The British-Russian director Polina Kalinina was complaining to the Scottish writer Lesley Hart that Russian literary texts typically “suffered from staidness…

PM tells ITV show he reads veteran author’s racy books for ‘escapism’

Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, was sent home in backpacks of children

And Theresa May is a fan

PM spoke in some detail about how he enjoys the novels as they help him ‘get away from the day to day’

A revealing memoir illuminates the conflict between wordly success and creative freedom