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Archivist Jo Klett says the 40 boxes of material will provide ‘a full picture of Roger’s entire working career’

The 2024 festival was cancelled after multiple authors pulled out over the non-profit’s stance on the Israel-Gaza war

Six writers are now finalists for the prestigious annual prize, which awards £20,000 to a writer aged 39 or under

Romantic poet’s Rydal Mount and Gardens, marketed for over £2.5m, will remain open under Wordsworth Trust

The authors of The Book of Records and Dusk join Keshava Guha, Susanna Kwan, Maria Reva and Helen Phillips on the shortlist for the £10,000 prize

British writer brought wit, realism and class consciousness to cold war espionage fiction, reshaping the genre in the 1960s

• Len Deighton obituary

Britons learn about the country’s involvement ‘almost as a self-congratulatory narrative’, says historian Joseph Mulhern

The actor led the starry book deals, while publishers assessed whether US-style bans are spreading to the UK

Magnusson’s 2017 bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning turned the Scandinavian decluttering practice into a global phenomenon