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Philip Pullman will help choose this year’s winners of award set up in memory of the keen young writer who died aged 13 in 2021

South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’

• Who will be Trump’s VP? A shortlist

Broadcaster Richie Brave, whose ancestors were enslaved, says organisers should be ‘asking themselves some questions’

The books will be released sequentially, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with a full cast of yet-to-be-named actors and a ‘groundbreaking new soundscape’

Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says Europol

Chemical thought to be in emerald green covers of four 19th-century books identified by Poison Book Project

Differences in defamation law mean the chapter, which was published in the US and highly publicised, will be blacked out in the Australian edition

Australian actor’s book Rebel Rising will have allegations of incident on set of Grimsby that left her ‘feeling bullied, humiliated, and compromised’ struck out

Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June

• Monica Ali on how the judges chose the shortlist