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The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood

Speaking at the Royal Institution, the author and screenwriter linked falling shared reading rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media

All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 years

British author Donna Fisher has won the Libraro prize for the unpublished manuscript of her ‘provocative and timely’ book, Sheep’s Clothing

Lai wins $60,000 literary award for her study of a young woman’s repression and rage as she struggles to juggle the needs of those around her

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Premium editions of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! cost up to $250 but some say signatures are unnaturally identical

In a rare public appearance, Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams warned of ‘networks of powerful elites’ using wealth and influence to silence dissenting voices

Rumens, whose column ran for nearly 20 years and developed a loyal readership, died this week aged 81

A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet