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Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel My Sister the Serial Killer has been longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Read more…

There Is Always An After When the edict came I found myself locked down in Cromarty in the North East of Scotland, 170 miles…

Read Rachel Clarke’s column in the Observer here.

Twenty years ago, Bernardine Evaristo visualised winning the Booker Prize. She had been taking upbeat American-style personal development classes, and decided to set herself…

I was born in Liverpool in 1978, two months before my mum’s 42nd birthday. I was her 11th and last child – she had…

When her bag was stolen on a night out, Marina Kemp lost her laptop — and the only draft of her first novel. She…

Mnemonic _____ He is not the sort of person to break his journey to take in a view, not least because his employer, Jerome,…

We are delighted to announce Prince Albert by A.N. Wilson has been shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2020. Read more…

‘Spirit D’escalier the Size of a Country’ by Max Porter The government said we could drive so I loaded the boys in the car…

Daisy Waugh ‘In the Crypt with a Candlestick’ is book-cast of the week on newly launched ‘The Great Big Book Club’. The novel has…