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Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural Canada

The award, run by Hachette UK and Libraro, aims to ‘sidestep the traditional barricades of the book industry’ and give readers a role in discovering new talent

Booker prize winner, 80, says he has reached point of having ‘played all my tunes’ after new book Departure(s)

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

Former president convicted for coup plot to take advantage of law that knocks four days off jail term for each book read

Pleas for scrutiny of system fraught with accusations of negligence after one-year-old’s death in hospital

Wood wins the award for fiction for his ‘utterly immersive’ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man

Cartoonist – who was dropped from US papers in 2023 after calling Black people a ‘hate group’ – had prostate cancer

The footballer and author are supporting a nationwide campaign, Go All In, which aims to reverse the ‘worrying decline’ in reading for pleasure among children in the UK