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American authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human connection’

Irish publisher receives award for small presses for Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door

Critics say bans would hinder rights as proponents would impose their beliefs on others who don’t share their views

‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,’ said Val McDermid – joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf

Season three offers up clues to characters’ psyches – or perhaps their fates – by showing us their holiday reads

Mikey Please’s book inspired by game family played during lockdown, while Carlos Sánchez and Nathanael Lessore win for young readers and teens categories

French president Emmanuel Macron has called for authorities to free the novelist who was convicted in Algeria for allegedly undermining the country’s territorial integrity

Other foreign language additions include alamak, a cry of outrage in Singapore and Malaysia, and tapau, a Chinese word for takeaway

The first fiction the author has written since he was attacked in 2022 comprises three novellas and two shorter works set across India, England and the US