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The retailer is in talks to sell its 500 high street stores, which could be a ‘nail in the coffin for British writers’

Other lives: Bookseller, writer and editor of the cultural magazine Out of the Circle

Modern Poetry and Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss; That Broke Into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott; My Secret Life by Krisztina Tóth; The Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar; Flood by Jessica Mookherjee

The stark differences between two brothers are thrown into relief as they navigate grief in this moving novel from the Normal People author

The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien

INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over themselves with enthusiasm, hailing Smith the voice of fiction’s future. Now, 25 years later, the author speaks to Nick Duerden about the book that changed her life

The perma-dieting, toxic man-loving heroine is easily written off as a product of her time. Claudia Cockerell on why she’s more relevant than ever

W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo's anthology welcomes some new writers

Authors say plan to shut more than 20 public libraries could have devastating effect on Scotland’s cultural future