Pandemic drives ebook and audiobook sales by UK publishers to all-time high
Printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school closures
No 10 has done a ‘U-turn’ on school meals: where does the term come from?
The government’s reversal of policy on free school meals is just the latest in its long line of U-turns
Penguin launches project to boost diversity in GCSE reading lists
Lit in Colour, the publisher’s partnership with the Runnymede Trust, hopes to redress imbalances in English literature courses
Free school meals: 200 children’s authors condemn government
Shirley Hughes and Philip Pullman among signatories of letter decrying lack of provision
Stephen Cohen obituary
US historian who argued that the Soviet Union could have been reformed and need not have ended when it did
Bernardine Evaristo slams literature teaching for bias to ‘whiteness and maleness’
Booker-winning novelist uses New Statesman/Goldsmiths prize lecture to attack ‘academics who still refuse to reassess their reading lists’
Authors hope The Lost Words followup will inspire action and change
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris celebrates the magic of British wildlife
Many GCSE pupils never study a book by a black author
Exam board AQA features no black writers on GCSE English literature syllabus
Head, Hand, Heart by David Goodhart review – let’s think practically
Goodhart makes a strong case for reviving the status of work outside the ‘knowledge economy’, as the age of automation approaches
Nepotism, fraud, waste and cheating … welcome to England’s school system
A Nottingham professor has collated 3,800 examples of bad practice she says go to the heart of government. Now she has written a book
‘Who knew people wanted a funny book on punctuation?’: Lynne Truss on writing Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The novelist recalls how some ‘wonderful stuff about commas’ helped her book surpass all expectations to become a No 1 bestseller
David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59
The anarchist and author of bestselling books on capitalism and bureaucracy died in a Venice hospital on Wednesday
‘Mutant algorithm’: boring B-movie or another excuse from Boris Johnson?
The prime minister blamed the exam results fiasco on a ‘mutant’ algorithm - but where does the word come from?
Yusef Salaam: ‘Trump would have had me hanging from a tree in Central Park’
Wrongly jailed for gang rape – a case which inspired Trump to call for the death penalty – Salaam has poured his experiences into a novel about hope, justice and race
Librarian who put books behind Boris Johnson says message was for school
Late twist in tale as former librarian claims titles including The Twits and The Subtle Knife were intended for management