Jilly Cooper died of head injury suffered in fall at home, inquest hears
Coroner reaches conclusion of accidental death and says author died as a result of a traumatic subdural haematoma
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award
Andrew Miller is bookies’ favourite to win 2025 Booker prize
The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial
Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie’s record-breaking mystery, suggests ‘we all fancy ourselves as detectives’
Novels I haven’t finished reading are piling up by my bedside. What if that’s a good thing?
Authors are sounding warnings about the length of the modern attention span, but my series of abandonments is a sign of something else, says author Hanna Thomas Uose
My Father’s Shadow looms over competition at British independent film awards
Akinola Davies Jr’s Nigeria-set drama has 12 nominations including best film and besr director
Big belly, wavy fur and a nose for trouble: we exclusively reveal the new-look Paddington
It’s been the biggest secret in theatre: what will the marmalade-loving, hyper-polite Peruvian look like in Paddington the Musical? As the curtain rises, we speak to the new bear’s creator, a veteran of Star Wars and PG Tips ads
Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers
King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action
A sprawling global family: The Long Wave turns one
As we celebrate our first anniversary, we reflect on the stories that connect us across the diaspora
Zoë Wicomb obituary
South African-Scottish author admired for her first book You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, a collection of short stories
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
Forward prize names poets Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie its first joint winners
Judge of prestigious award says two best collection winners ‘address the urgent challenges of our time’
The Supremes, Marcus Garvey, Tupac Shakur: the cultural figures who inspired our Black History Month panel
At the end of Black History Month, our panel reveal the influences that helped them shape their beliefs and identities
‘It would be a great loss’: London’s oldest Islamic bookshop at risk of closure
Loved by the likes of Yusuf Islam and Gai Eaton, Dar al-Taqwa is finding it tough to survive an era of online retail
Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims
Andrew hid behind Balmoral’s ‘guarded gates’ to escape court papers, accuser says in memoir Nobody’s Girl