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NEW figures have found that more than 100,000 children have received free books this year as part of a Scottish Government programme.

Kureishi, 69, lost the use of his hands and legs after a devastating accident in Rome last year

Author Nuzhat Khan weaves a story of love and loss against the backdrop of Uttarakhand’s forest fire catastrophe in her latest novel 

Alexia and Joel, both 80, met in a cafe – within a week they had arranged to live together. A decade later they still do, splitting their time between California and Colorado

When academician and literary historian Professor N.S. Gundur began thinking about Kannada texts that readers beyond the Kannada world should read, he started by making a list of books. “I ended up deleting most of the titles because they largely spoke to Kannada audience,” says Gundur, one of the three recipients of…

East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways – and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah’s work continued last year when he…

It’s not a secret that Fantasia Barrino did not want to play Celie again

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Writing and reading poems is no longer a minority pastime as verse overlaps with self-help genre and classics are revisited

Self-appointed postman Vincent Berthelot’s mission to deliver letters by hand has spread beyond his native country

A NEWLY launched collection of writing by the late Fordyce Maxwell has already met production costs and raised £1000 for a prostate cancer charity.