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Dorries claims Tory cabal called the ‘movement’ brought down Johnson

Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove were key figures in group that controlled the Conservatives, says ex-culture secretary

Interpreters are wizards – at times they seem to have read my mind. AI could never compete

They can take another’s words and sentences and reshape them, on the instant, transforming my stammered-over words into sublimities, says novelist John Banville

Britons go map-crazy, with geographical games and books becoming bestsellers

London tube game Metro Memory is a surprise hit, with geography books also finding favour with readers

Publishing associations urge UK government to protect copyrighted works from AI

Statement asks government to help stop AI tools ‘using copyright-protected works with impunity’

‘I was young and naive – now I’m wizened and cynical’: James O’Brien on the politicians who always let you down

If Britain is broken, the talk radio host knows who to blame, from Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn to Boris Johnson. True, he once voted for some of them, but he’s not going to let them off the hook

Yeats’ play on sale for £125,000 – thanks to message from the dead

A 1924 seance has solved the mystery surrounding a signed copy of the dramatist’s first play

Letters reveal the dispute that pushed poet Thomas Chatterton to the brink

The romantic writer took his own life aged just 17 after a row with Horace Walpole

Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890

Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book

Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied

David Shrigley turns 6,000 The Da Vinci Code novels into Nineteen Eighty-Four

Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestseller

Bloomsbury’s fantasy list helps it to record £17.7m first-half profits

Publisher to double dividend after demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon

Chaucer goes digital as British Library makes works available online

Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales

Tian Yi wins 4thWrite prize for ‘fantastically original’ The Good Son

Award for short story about a young man reflecting on a small-town childhood includes publication on the Guardian website

‘Demand interestingness’: Thomas Heatherwick rails against boring buildings

Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaign

Black headteachers in UK say pupils crying out for ‘people who look like them’

Letters To a Young Generation: Aspiring school leaders book aims to encourage Black teachers to pursue leadership positions

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