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Burnt out by the London rat race, the writer retreats to the countryside where a chance encounter changes her life

Well-drafted laws delineate the line between acceptable and unacceptable speech. The same rules don’t apply within the corporate ecosystem.

"I'm holding an illustrated book of cheeses," says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in Japan where anyone wanting to sell their tomes can rent a shelf.

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

“See what a simple line, a visible mark of the utmost simplicity and cheapness, can do to a populace?” In Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, that line is painted in crude bright red around the houses of those the state has deemed “unverified”. It means ostracisation, re-education and worse. It…

‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Succession’ stars join the cast for the new episodes of the BBC One historical drama

African book publishing is in a rare moment of transformation, according to a new report. It’s an industry that has historically survived at the mercy of multinational publishing houses and donor funding. These arrangements, subject to the dictates of capitalism or aid, have not been sustainable.

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There are shades of The Shining and Shirley Jackson in these atmospheric short stories set around a haunted hotel in the Fens

Murder Mindfully sees a lawyer turn killer after going on a mindfulness course

WOMEN writers dominate the fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards, which organisers said showcase the “dazzling variety” of…