Wales appoints Hanan Issa as its first Muslim national poet

The Welsh-Iraqi writer said she plans to make use of her experience ‘sitting with one foot on either shore of different heritages’

Children’s authors and Duchess of Cornwall unveil school library in Wales

Millbrook primary in Newport among first to be revamped as part of campaign

Modern agriculture isn’t working. Two energising books come up with contrasting solutions

BookTrust which ran the awards said its limited resources would now be directed to disadvantaged families

Shah Muhammad Rais survived decades of misrule in Afghanistan but finally fled to escape the Taliban

The poet and children’s author, who takes over from Cressida Cowell, was praised as an ‘extraordinary advocate for making poetry accessible to all’

Author of Manon Bradshaw detective series was diagnosed with a brain tumour three years ago

Welsh-English anthology about Welsh equivalent of Route 66 republished twice since release on St David’s Day

Proposed cuts to English lit courses are symptomatic of the Conservatives’ ignorance of culture and disregard for ordinary people’s access to it

Courtroom battle looms as author argues her book revealing inspiration for character became basis of an American novel

ITV’s political editor on coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, belatedly publishing his first novel, and why he longs for a lost England

Study of literature should not be a ‘luxury for a wealthy minority of spoilt aesthetes’, author says

Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox between the living spirit of the diary and then the knowledge that you have’

Education secretary denounces exam board’s decision to replace the two poets in English literature course

Noughts & Crosses author praised by judges for ‘challenging issues of injustice in a way that is totally engaging’