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Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok

Author of Natchez Burning trilogy had battled blood cancer for decades, according to his literary agent

Hundreds of titles are being pulled from library and classroom shelves in the Republican-dominated state

Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella

The Indian author is the next Future Library writer, set to submit a secret work to be locked in a library until 2114

800 writers and publishing workers have signed a statement objecting to the LGBTQ+ book prize’s nomination of Boyne, who described himself as a ‘terf’

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Young poet details low mood and disappointment in love in 1795 letter, written not long before he met Wordsworth

The crime writer and co-author Vicky Ward will recount murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, and chart ‘young man’s descent from Ivy League graduate to notorious accused killer’