How I turned prisoners’ misery into reading pleasure: the brilliant story of Bang Up Books

When I heard Covid was keeping inmates in cells, I drove a car load of donated books to Pentonville. It became a project that now delivers thousands of books to British jails

‘He’s my own Dark Knight’: TV’s new sleuth, invented by a Bradford pharmacist

It took Amit Dhand years to create the British Asian detective Harry Virdee. Now he’s coming to the small screen

Family of poet Gboyega Odubanjo launch fundraiser to start foundation

More than £36,000 raised to support low-income black writers in memory of award-winning poet who went missing

Nadine Dorries’ book on Boris Johnson’s downfall delayed due to legal issues

Ex-MP claims her account will lay bare ‘a corruption of democracy deep at the heart of the Conservative party and in Downing Street’

UK publishers urge Sunak to protect works ingested by AI models

Publishers Association’s call comes as ChatGPT firm argues US lawsuit ‘misconceives scope’ of copyright law

Gboyega Odubanjo: police appeal for help over missing poet

Award-winning poet last seen in early hours of Saturday morning in Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire

Grieving Wordsworth found solace in poignant shipwreck treasure after brother’s death

When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research reveals

‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own story

Rebanks, wife of bestselling The Shepherd’s Life author James, publishes her debut book this week and gives short shrift to Britain’s farms policy

‘Overrun with rats’: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint

Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt

Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam

Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiers

Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified

Young people sometimes lack ‘sense of history’ to read texts with dated language, argues bestselling author

Author walks out of Edinburgh book festival over sponsor’s fossil fuel links

Activist Mikaela Loach staged protest over investment firm’s ‘bankrolling’ of the climate crisis

Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘deeply personal and revealing’ autobiography to be published in 2025

Pan Macmillan will publish the former first minister’s as-yet-untitled memoir

A moment that changed me: I was outraged by the risks facing my children – so we moved to the country

Black Caribbean people born in the UK have a higher chance of schizophrenia, and city life is a factor. So when a chance came to live in Somerset, I leapt at it

I have been sexually assaulted by five MPs, says Labour’s Chris Bryant

Standards committee chair says in new book he has been groped by fellow MPs on several occasions