Her daughter tells the BBC about finishing the book after her mother's sudden death last year.

Vicki Shenkin Kerr says her independent bookshop is becoming a community space for events.

Evangeline Maddams says the event is a good way of attracting people to the library.

Topping and Company, which currently has four UK shops, is set to open in York in autumn 2025.

The actor tells an audience at Wigtown Book Festival how he graduated from playing "Bigfoot lumps".

Lodge was twice nominated for the Booker Prize in the 1980s for comic novels Small World and Nice Work.

Axel Scheffler designed the card for Dorset-based The Handwritten Letter Society to mark World Postcard Day.

More than 1,000 children are given a free book to launch the Bath Children's Literature Festival.

Blouin ran in the same circles as liberation icons like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré.