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The Women’s prize for fiction has been championing women writers since it launched in 1996. It is one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in world with writers like Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy, among its past winners.

Queenie star Dionne Brown on playing the South London millennial who captured the hearts of readers and became a literary phenomenon

The Scottish poet’s latest collection is a small marvel that shows an acute awareness of planetary and personal impermanence

The Irish novelist turns his hand to the western in an atmospheric tale of romantic runaways from a 1890s US mining town that has an epic feel despite its brevity

Insistence on investment purity misses the point and will only lead to a decline in arts sponsorship

Helena Bonham Carter narrates as a bare-footed audience explore exquisite rooms in this unsettling, grief-soaked journey into the night

The hot-off-the-press launches and dazzling shopping newness to know this month

Alex Gibney-directed film, based on Rushdie’s memoir, will cover his physical and spiritual healing after 2022 attack

To take the frictionless, scrolling pixels from Instagram and reproduce them in the physical world as a tactile, tablet-sized, small object of desire, is a curious concept. But the recently published book, Brutalist Plants, does just that, as its contents are derived from author Olivia Broome’s Instagram account.

From Jurassic Park to Westworld, he was king of the sciency disaster novel. But Crichton died before finishing Eruption. Who could possibly complete it? Fellow thriller legend James Patterson explains why he took up the baton

A shocking new book sheds light on the many long-hauler killers in the US who operate close to many Americans yet remain dangerously undetected