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Six writers in running for $60,000 prize, including first-time nominees Randa Abdel-Fattah, Steve MinOn, Konrad Muller and Sean Wilson

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film

Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore

After ‘bottling everything up for a long time’ the faithful pet, who has remained silent for many years, will spill the beans on the pair’s ‘pet hates and fur-vent passions’

Litter-picking creatures emerge from underground for global franchise targeting nostalgic adults and gen Alpha

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema

Hugely successful London show to open in the US, with performances beginning in March

Works of Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie and more to feature in celebration of literature’s interplay with other art forms, says director

The Standard of Living by James Graham traces economist’s influence on British politics and culture