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Rochford LGBTQ+ community say Reform council’s ban on flying pride flags or holding events states they’re not welcome

Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes

Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000

Sarah Wynn-Williams remained silent during her hour-long appearance, but sales of Careless People have since increased by more than 300%

Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in attempt to widen access to quality fiction

Mama G wants to dedicate her book, The Proudest Bird in the World, to pair after chance Blackpool Pride encounter

The Men Who Saved the World, the Pulitzer winner’s lost manuscript found in Yale archives, appears in Strand magazine

Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year

Former first lady speaks about Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race at event for her new memoir