From Covid to Kosovo: five things we learned from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Former PM’s doorstop-sized tome, Unleashed, recounts chequered political career in familiar boosterish tone

Black British Book festival founder criticises lack of diversity in publishing

Increasing number of authors forced to self-publish or promote work on social media, says Selina Brown

Ross Raisin’s Ghost Kitchen wins 2024 BBC national short story award with dark gig economy tale – read it here

Raisin takes £15,000 prize with ‘a brilliantly rendered glimpse into life in the edge-lands’

Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair

Exclusive: Former Australian PM witnessed ‘shocking act of perjury’ and says MI5 are still trying to hide something

‘Jesus Christ, is that the time already?’ Billy Connolly on death, despair and his new book of drawings

In The Accidental Artist, the comedian combines his quirky sketches with musings on life and, particularly, death

Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed

Giant – exploration of Roald Dahl and antisemitism that speaks to our times

Sophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the author’s life

The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising in sobering addiction drama

Heart-wrenching story adapted from Amy Liptrot’s memoir is as tough as its Orkney landscapes

Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey

Amended memorial to the writers unveiled at Poets’ Corner 85 years after misspelled plaque first installed

Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work

Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ under Thomas Hardy’s home given protected status

Enclosure found under late novelist’s garden is older than Salisbury monument and wins national recognition

Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham libraries

Launched by poet Liz Berry and novelist Catherine O’Flynn, pieces for each of the city’s 35 branch libraries speak against a ‘tidal wave of market forces’

‘Moneypenny with more power’: book celebrates UK’s forgotten female spies

Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall reveals contribution of Kathleen Pettigrew, most senior secretary in MI6 and inspiration for Ian Fleming, and others in new title

‘Scam and scandal’: ex-aid chief raises alarm over £4bn Tory asylum contracts

The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during Covid

Brie Larson to make her West End debut in revenge tragedy Elektra

Oscar-winning actor will perform the lead role in Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophocles’ play in London and Brighton next year