Author with British citizenship barred from flight home to UK
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi says Ryanair worker in Brussels wrongly took issue with her travel documents
Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture
From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul
First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned
Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood
Workplaces as run down as parliament would cause picketing, says Jess Phillips
Labour MP tells Hay festival that Palace of Westminster is ‘falling apart’ and would be condemned if it were any other building
Lenny Henry criticises TV streamers’ commissioning tactics
Comedian says BBC approach is better as the focus is on the story being pitched rather than whether it will sell
Jacqueline Wilson: my mother slept with a gun under her pillow
Children’s author says she told her elderly mother to get rid of it as she was terrified of being mistakenly shot
Monica Ali ‘terrified’ of writing sex scenes in new novel
Brick Lane author says fear of winning Bad Sex award loomed over writing of latest book, Love Marriage
British empire nostalgia played part in Brexit vote, says Nobel laureate
Abdulrazak Gurnah said imperial attitudes were fuelled by the government withholding details of Britain’s colonial past
The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen
The great poet’s newly released missives to his lost love put the lie to his aloof image – but were dismissed by the man himself as fantasy
Anthony Horowitz: I’m still waiting to see benefit of Brexit
Author who has previously called himself a Conservative tells Hay festival he ‘can’t understand’ the government’s actions
Digested week: Queen’s absence makes this republican’s heart grow fonder
With bad news all around, it was hard not to smile when the monarch, cheerful in pink, visited Chelsea flower show
Record-breaking vampires at Whitby Abbey mark 125 years of Dracula
A fanged crowd of 1,369 broke the Guinness World Record for vampire gatherings in celebration of Bram Stoker’s classic novel
Get Carter review – Michael Caine delivers in stone-cold crime classic
Mike Hodges’ Brit-crime magnum opus from 1971, which gave Caine the role of a lifetime as gangland enforcer Jack Carter, can be savoured again on re-release
The end of men: the controversial new wave of female utopias
There have been many novels that imagine a world without men – but are these books reductive or freeing?
The great British breakfast! The regional treats that make the perfect fry-up – from laverbread to fruit pudding
Unsung specialities from soda farls to dock puddings will ensure you breakfast like a king. Here are 10 dishes to try