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The Edinburgh-based writer takes £15,000 prize for Ditto, a ‘beautifully told’ story about domestic abuse in a small Australian town

• Read an extract from Ditto below

City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks

Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media

MoD claims book by soldier known as Christian Craighead contains alleged breach of confidentiality contract

This year’s shortlist for the Booker prize was announced last night. Our books editors answered your questions about the contenders, the judges and literary fiction

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist

• Booker judge Mary Beard on this year’s shortlist

Brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, says ‘accuracy is important’ as he responds to broadcaster’s threat to sue over claims made in memoir

Broadcaster refutes memoir claim that he was behind publication of gym photos of Diana, Princess of Wales

Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, tell of president capable of ‘limitless cruelty’