One long sentence, 1,000 pages: Lucy Ellmann ‘masterpiece’ wins Goldsmiths prize

Ducks, Newburyport wins £10,000 prize for fiction that ‘breaks the mould’ of the novel, a month after missing out on the Booker

‘Managed migration’: an example of how empty political rhetoric has become

This week, Labour promised EU citizens ‘managed migration’ – implying that entry to the UK is somehow currently ‘unmanaged’

Judi Dench appeals for public help to bring rare Brontë book to UK as auction looms

A miniature book by the teenage Charlotte Brontë could fetch at least £650,000 in Paris next week, and Haworth’s Parsonage museum hopes to buy it with crowdfunding

Zadie Smith’s first play to reimagine Chaucer in borough of Brent

The Wife of Willesden to be staged for London borough of culture celebrations next year

John Bercow announces ‘candid’ memoir, Unspeakable

The former Speaker and MP is set to reveal his thoughts on David Cameron and Boris Johnson in his book, released next February

‘Extraordinary’ letters between Ian Fleming and wife to be sold

More than 160 letters written over 20 years shine light on James Bond author’s life

‘Bookshops pass on anything to the right of Tony Blair’: are publishers failing leave voters?

After years of negotiation and Brexit still looming on the horizon, publishers are split on how to engage with opposing views. Are they doing enough?

Ian Rankin relaunches the novel he once hoped to bury

The author now sees his ‘lost’ book Westwind as pacey and prescient

Jeremy Corbyn will ‘sort’ Brexit – does that mean solve it or stop it?

This week the Labour leader said he would ‘sort Brexit’ out if he’s elected – though sadly for some, this didn’t mean consigning it to oblivion

Brexit poetry may not heal our divided nation, but it helps

I fear what this crisis is doing to us. But verse is an antidote, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

‘Climate strike’ named 2019 word of the year by Collins Dictionary

Reflecting increasingly politicised language, this year’s contenders also included ‘rewilding’ and ‘hopepunk’

Discworld dishes Moby-Dick: BBC unveils 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’

Panel of experts charged with listing the fiction that has personally affected them most, goes for bestsellers as well as literary classics

Teacher who helps migrant children turn pain into prize poetry

One child wrote of a suicide bomber; another of the ‘sweet honey mangoes’ of home. Kate Clanchy helps them tune into their inner voice

Country diary: Snowdonia’s folklore river still invites a poetic pilgrimage

Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: The Cyfnal gorge has attracted writers, mages and mystics over centuries, and the atmospherics still thrum

‘No goose is an island’: the Brexit picture books for children of all ages

Two new books are causing a stir by translating the contortions over EU membership into graphic tales of endearing animals