Army veterans criticise Prince Harry’s claim he killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistan
Col Tim Collins says ‘we don’t do notches on rifle butt’ and kill-count talk could increase Harry’s personal security risk
What’s in Prince Harry’s memoir Spare? Here’s all we know so far
Duke of Sussex writes about tussles with his brother, that Nazi uniform, his mother’s death, and losing his virginity
Prince Harry saw ‘red mist’ in William during brother’s alleged attack
Duke of Sussex recounts altercation with brother in newly released clip from ITV interview
I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child?
All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Indie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail year
Lockdowns were good news for book trade as people read more and sought out bookshops when they reopened
Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ relayed message from Diana
Exclusive: Harry writes in autobiography Spare of being told he was ‘living the life she couldn’t … the life she wanted for you’
Prince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new book
Exclusive: Harry writes in new autobiography Spare that William ‘knocked me to the floor’ during confrontation in London in 2019
Fay Weldon: the fearless glass ceiling cracker who loved being outrageous
Writer Jenny Colgan remembers the author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil, who has died aged 91, a supreme operator who understood how to have a successful literary career
Fay Weldon obituary
Novelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Prince Harry’s teasers trigger tsunami of outrage as the Windsors await his book
Will any of the royal family react publicly to the duke’s memoir? The betting would be on Prince William
Rare Robert Burns book found in a barber shop goes on display
The first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is now on display in Fife, with 50 pages missing due to being torn out and used to clean razors
Gravestone-encircled ‘Hardy Tree’ falls in London
The tree became a powerful symbol of life among death after the novelist and poet stacked gravestones around its base in the 1860s
This year’s diary ran to 52,000 words – but did recording my life get in the way of living it?
I’ve been toying with giving up my chronic chronicling, perhaps even deleting the evidence - but something always stops me, says author Lamorna Ash
Get Matt Hancock out of here: these are the political diaries worth reading
For windows on the corridors of power that were actually written contemporaneously, read this selection of books by MPs from left and right
Contest challenges AI to solve legendary literary puzzle Cain’s Jawbone
The fiendish mystery set by Observer crossword compiler Torquemada in the 1930s has only been cracked by four people to date. Can machines do better?