Writer looked to topics such as computer engineering and life in a nursing home to produce richly researched books ...

It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or ...

Shadow of the Past, a new Peter Jackson-produced film based on unadapted chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring ...

Drawing on a real-life 1960s experiment, this story of an out-of-work actor paid to cover himself in a black leather bag fizzes with wit and invention ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize ...

The founder of Europe’s largest celebration of Black literature and champion of inclusive reading becomes Queen Camilla’s inaugural National Reading Hero ...

Poet and publisher who founded Five Seasons Press in the late 1970s to share his enthusiasm of the form ...

Roy’s memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me and Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul are joined by books on exile by Ece Temelkuran and Judith Mackrell and an ode to the arts by Daisy Fancourt ...

Grief, betrayal and moral complications are explored across nine tales of quiet power that take us from Argentina to County Wexford ...

Anna Dempsey’s This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers ...

Nostalgia, shame and gossip from Alan Bennett in the fourth instalment of his diaries ...

This novel is stacked with ideas about Black art and aesthetics – but its language is too clumsy and academic to bring them to life ...