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‘Your book is too Jewish’: How the British publishing industry began an ‘anti-Semitic silent boycott’
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Jewish people in the book industry have noticed a growing incidence of ‘soft boycotting’
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One Day author David Nicholls: ‘I’m not a conventional romantic’
The writer, whose latest novel has won Amazon Book of Year, on loneliness, love, ageing – and why long walks are a ‘kind of therapy’
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Barbara Taylor Bradford’s 10 rules for life
From matrimony to sexism, the late novelist had sage advice for each of life’s obstacles
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A Woman of Substance author Barbara Taylor Bradford dies aged 91
‘Grand dame of blockbusters’ dies peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones following short illness
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A story of Berlin, obsession and some unfortunate daddy issues
Curtis Garner’s bold and unflinching debut novel, Isaac, follows a young writer’s struggles as he falls into a toxic relationship
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Cormac McCarthy had relationship with 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was in his 40s
Augusta Britt says affair with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at an Arizona motel pool
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All the ways Vanity Fair messed up the literary scoop of the year
Vanity Fair has revealed that Cormac McCarthy ran away with a 16-year-old girl. But this fascinating scoop is ruined by questionable writing
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Queen presented with honorary doctorate of literature by Princess Anne
Passion for promoting literacy and literature recognised in ceremony at University of London, where Princess Royal is chancellor
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The big British book prize and the battle against righteous protest
Corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions has become a minefield in the past few years – and Baillie Gifford is no exception
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Richard Flanagan becomes first author to win Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes
Question 7 wins non-fiction award, 10 years after Australian won the Booker Prize for fiction
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Do you know a lazy English student? Give them this
Edwin Frank’s history of the modern novel, Stranger than Fiction, balances its erudition with plenty of gossip on Proust, Kafka and Woolf
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Imagine The Go-Between, but set in small-town America
James Grady has left behind spy thrillers with The Smoke in Our Eyes, a tender, coming-of-age novel set in 1950s rural Montana
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Grandparents must save the bedtime story from extinction, says Gyles Brandreth
The author and former MP hopes to get children ‘off the screen and into the old folks home’ to boost literacy
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How a politician went from celebrated hero to forgotten nobody
Yuri Herrera’s novel, Season of the Swamp, imagines how a Mexican revolutionary may have spent his exile in the messy glamour of New Orleans
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Jamie Oliver’s pulped fiction brings shame on British publishers
The furore surrounding the TV chef’s latest book for children is pathetic – the industry should be fearless, not cowardly
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Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey: ‘It can sometimes be difficult to write from a white British perspective’
This year’s Booker victor talks about success, the crisis in our literary culture and how she plans to spend her prize money
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Meet the youngest female pilot to fly around the world
Zara Rutherford offers young readers plenty of fun and adventure in I Flew Around the World, a dazzling account of her 32,000-mile journey
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Author who spent lockdown watching space livestreams to research astronaut novel wins Booker Prize
Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth for 24 hours
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This year’s Booker winner is a smart novel – but the wrong choice
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has many strengths, but Percival Everett’s James should have been awarded the £50,000 prize
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Tax to blame for death of high street, says Waterstones boss
Interview: James Daunt on business rates and the threat of online retail giants
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Anthony Horowitz interview: ‘At boarding school, books saved my life’
The author discusses his monstrous grandmother, fostering his love of writing at Rugby and the BBC’s new adaptation of Moonflower Murders
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The ghosts of war haunt this novel – will it win the Booker Prize?
In a series of quiet, elegant fragments, Held, a Booker-shortlisted novel by Anne Michaels, shows us a panorama of love, death and grief
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Make robots our translators and we risk cultural disaster
Literary translation is a crucial – and misunderstood – part of the publishing industry. Now it’s under threat from Artificial Intelligence
