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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

French government withdraws funding after claims of toxic management and dismissal of staff member who lodged rape complaint

True to his irreverent style, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) thanks his psychiatrist, his gastrointestinal doctors and his drug dealers