‘Stunned and shocked’: Ingrid Horrocks wins top prize at New Zealand’s Ockham awards for her fiction debut
All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 years
#MeToo-themed novel wins inaugural reader-led award worth £50,000
British author Donna Fisher has won the Libraro prize for the unpublished manuscript of her ‘provocative and timely’ book, Sheep’s Clothing
Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives
A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak
Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon
Lai wins $60,000 literary award for her study of a young woman’s repression and rage as she struggles to juggle the needs of those around her
Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin review – a celebration of the female voice
From Édith Piaf to Charli xcx, a moving study of the ways women express themselves – and the obstacles they face
Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion
Radical hope and rage combine in this tale of ecological precarity and resistance among sex workers on a brothel island
Lloyd Jones obituary
Other lives: Journalist and author who wrote novels, short stories and poetry in English and Welsh
High and Low by Amanda Craig review – will Britain boil over?
A north London cafe is under siege in a state-of-the-nation satire that brings together the haves and have-nots
Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand
Premium editions of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! cost up to $250 but some say signatures are unnaturally identical
The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn review – a carnival of a book about Earth’s wild places
An extraordinary exploration of wilderness and its meaning that takes us from the ocean floor to volcanic peaks
Sarah Wynn-Williams and Virginia Giuffre jointly win freedom to publish prize at British book awards
In a rare public appearance, Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams warned of ‘networks of powerful elites’ using wealth and influence to silence dissenting voices
John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?
The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repression
What happens when we lose a language?
A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake
‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the ‘voice of a generation’
Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline