Liz Hyder: ‘It’s extraordinary exploitation – kids are still working in mines’
Visiting a mining museum in Wales introduced the debut author to a shocking history. She explains how these horrors inspired her acclaimed novel
Collateral Damage by Kim Darroch review – our fall guy in Washington
The former British ambassador to the US is wry and astute in his account of how he fell foul of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn; This Land: The Story of a Movement – review
Two accounts of Corbynism – by journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire and the Guardian’s Owen Jones – unpick Labour’s rapid descent from the optimism of ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ to landslide defeat at the polls
What do writers gain – and lose – when they eschew social media?
You won’t find Maggie O’Farrell, Women’s Prize winner, on Twitter. Perhaps she’s on to something
‘Let me in – let me in!’ Wuthering Heights house for sale at £1m
Ponden Hall, thought to have inspired the famous ghost scene in Emily Brontë’s novel, is on the market
‘We haven’t seen anything like it since Harry Potter’: UK bookshops report record week
With books delayed by the pandemic reaching shops alongside other titles aimed at the Christmas market, the trade has seen sales boom
Dara McAnulty becomes youngest ever finalist for Baillie Gifford prize
Diary of a Young Naturalist, the 16-year-old’s debut, joins 12 other books in contention for prestigious £50,000 nonfiction award
Maggie O’Farrell wins Women’s prize for fiction with ‘exceptional’ Hamnet
Study of grief over the death of Shakespeare’s young son from bubonic plague acclaimed by judges as a truly great novel
Collateral Damage by Kim Darroch review – insulted by Trump, abandoned by Johnson
The former British ambassador to the US is rude about Theresa May, assertive on Brexit and refreshingly free of self pity
Sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty wins Wainwright prize for nature writing
Diary of a Young Naturalist hailed as ‘astute and candid’ by judges, who call for the book to be added to national curriculum
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: the 21-year-old British student with a million-dollar book deal
Author says she was ‘just a broke student writing to make myself some fictional friends’ in her debut Ace of Spades, about two black students navigating racism at an elite school
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
TS Eliot estate steps in to help Brontë Parsonage Museum rescue appeal
A £20,000 donation has been made on behalf of the late poet to help preserve the historic home of the sibling novelists
Michael Sandel: ‘The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit’
The philosopher believes the liberal left’s pursuit of meritocracy has betrayed the working classes. His new book argues for a politics centred on dignity
‘The man who shot my mum is still living his life’: Cherry Groce’s son on life after police brutality
Lee Lawrence was 11 when armed officers broke into his bedroom and shot his mother, paralysing her from the chest down. Has he finally found something close to justice?