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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast

The acclaimed short-story writer brings her characters vividly to life in this debut novel about a teenage girl’s assault and its aftermath

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2025

‘When I stopped racing I thought, who am I?’: Pippa York on leaving her old life behind

The Tour de France stage winner talks in detail for the first time about transitioning when her cycling career ended, growing up in the Gorbals and alienation in the peloton

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2025

The Guardian view on the Women’s prize for nonfiction: shining a light where it’s badly needed

Editorial: Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true story

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2025

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Guardian writer Frances Ryan named one of Vogue’s 25 women ‘defining Britain’

Magazine says Ryan’s efforts to spotlight lives of disabled people are ‘needed more than ever’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2025

Like Prince Harry, my memoir estranged me from my family

“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. They will never forgive me for lots of things.” I stopped dead, almost dropping the glass I was holding; my face hot, my hands trembling. I turned the interview up, rewinding the snippet again and…

Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2025

Kathy Lette looks back: ‘Older women are invisible, so I make sure to do something outrageous every day’

The author on her love for Spike Milligan, the furore over Puberty Blues, and why being middle-aged is great

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2025

‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2025

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Val McDermid to premiere new play exploring Christopher Marlowe’s death

THE first readings of a play by Scotland’s “Queen of Crime” are to be held this summer in Pitlochry and Edinburgh

The National (Scotland) · Jun 15, 2025

Flipping the bird at an old man wasn’t exactly in my playbook. It felt like a rupture

Author Tegan Bennett Daylight had spent a life listening to men’s stories and opinions about her. In a quiet library one day, she had enough

The Guardian - AU · Jun 15, 2025

Speaking out on Gaza: Australian creatives and arts organisations struggle to reconcile competing pressures

As cultural institutions respond to political statements on the war, many artists say they face a choice between career opportunities and standing up for their beliefs

The Guardian - AU · Jun 14, 2025

The final fact-check of Joan Didion

One of the year’s best books yet shows us an author at odds with her own storytelling

Salon · Jun 14, 2025

KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2025

The home of one of the largest catalogs of Black history turns 100 in New York

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2025

Five Great Reads: a kiss that led to a years-long nightmare, the Dull Men’s Club, and a famous feminist mother

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

The Guardian - AU · Jun 13, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writes

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersex

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

Latin Times · Jun 13, 2025

Judy Blume Classic, ACOTAR Among Books Declared 'Pornography' by Florida Board of Education, Superintendent Threatened With Prosecution

Florida's education board forced the permanent removal of 55 books, including Judy Blume's Forever, by threatening a school superintendent with prosecution.

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The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2025

Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

Cycling Weekly · Jun 13, 2025

Bradley Wiggins announces new book: 'The most honest and personal one I've ever written'

Wiggins's latest autobiography, 'The Chain', will be published on 25 October

Inverse · Jun 13, 2025

10 Years Ago, The Best Fantasy Epic You've Never Heard Of Flew Under The Radar

Though now forgotten, 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell' quietly blew all its other post-Game of Thrones competitors out of the water.

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

‘The best way to discover hidden gems’: why you should try out a bookshop crawl

Like bar-hopping, but for browsing books: this trend, popularised on TikTok, makes for a great day out – and can help you discover unique literary spots

The Guardian - AU · Jun 13, 2025

The Spare Room review – Judy Davis is electric in thrilling adaptation of Helen Garner novel

The powerhouse actor and the author’s keen prose fuel this show about a woman grappling with grief and rage while caring for her dying friend

Evening Standard · Jun 12, 2025

Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘greatest honour’ as an intersex woman, says winner

Dutch author Yael Van der Wouden will receive £30,000 and a bronze statuette.

The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2025

NHS doctor Rachel Clarke and debut novelist Yael van der Wouden win Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and Fiction

Authors will receive £30,000 prize money in recognition of their achievements

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