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The British-Ukrainian writer, who died last month, won the prize’s 25th-anniversary Vintage Bollinger award for 2005 novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, while Rosanna Pike took this year’s prize for A Little Trickerie

Inspired by the series of irreverent comic books by the Captain Underpants creator, the show will run at the Southbank Centre in 2026

Two new books analyse what makes the ‘perfect pub’ and both come to a sobering conclusion: Irish pubs are in trouble

The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration

The debut novel took the top prize while The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was named children’s book of the year

King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage

The actor won best performance for BBC drama Gatsby in Harlem at the inaugural British Audio awards, while Nicola Coughlan’s narration of Juno Dawson’s Queen B clinched best sci-fi audiobook

The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year

A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – to train large language models