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Letters: David Morgan remembers the singer-songwriter as the opening act at a John Martyn concert, and Trevor Brewster reminds us of her presence at the start ofan Amnesty International tour

In my younger and more vulnerable years my sister was given some advice which I’ve been turning over in my mind since. “You will see people who you think are stupider than you go much further than you, because they worked harder”.

The winner of the award, previously won by authors including Sally Rooney and Zadie Smith, will be given £10,000.

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 US standup on why his show on white nationalists resonated so widely, being taught writing by Zadie Smith and working on a new spinoff of The Office

New work from Zadie Smith, a memoir from Bill Gates, plus the third instalment in Rebecca Yarros’s romantasy series - here’s the biggest fiction and nonfiction for the year ahead

From a boy on a snowy midnight adventure to a gothic family caper via a young offender inspired by poetry, our critics pick their favourite titles of the year

Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is finally here – and nearly everyone I know seems to be reading it. It’s almost like the pre-streaming days, when everyone would settle on the sofa at the same time to watch the new hit TV series. The sense that we were all part…

The writer on Netflix’s brilliant plague tragicomedy, the best British debut novel she’s read in a while, and her deep love of singer Chappell Roan

Letters: Readers respond to an article in which Zadie Smith writes that real change is on the horizon after the Tories ruined Britain

Victoria Thomas Bowen says she is raising money for a cause ‘close to my heart’