Booker Prize: David Szalay’s Flesh wins 2025 fiction award
Booker judges describe British-Hungarian author David Szalay's Flesh as "a very special book".
Bookshop owner: ‘I feel like we’re bringing people together’
Vicki Shenkin Kerr says her independent bookshop is becoming a community space for events.
‘A wicked wife’: The truth about Tudor England’s ‘most hated woman’
Was 16th-Century aristocrat Jane Boleyn a treacherous, "sex-mad" spy – or was she a convenient scapegoat? A new historical thriller, Boleyn Traitor, explores her...
Judging Booker Prize is agony, says Sarah Jessica Parker
The Sex and the City star is one of the judges for this year's award and has revealed its shortlist.
Crime author Denise Mina says book festival is like the ‘spine’ of her career
Crime writer Denise Mina has been a stalwart of Aye Write since it started in 2005, only missing three.
Doctor Who and Wednesday star at Rushden library comic convention
Evangeline Maddams says the event is a good way of attracting people to the library.
Fans mark Austen’s 250th birthday in Regency style
People from across the world donned period costumes during the 10-day Jane Austen Festival in Bath.
‘The most desolate place in the world’: The sea of ice that inspired Frankenstein
This French glacier has given rise to countless works of art in the past 200 years. Paintings, photos and satellites reveal how the site...
Cambridge study suggests ‘poetic obsession’ with lawnmowers
Academic research suggests British poets have written about mowing the lawn for nearly 375 years.