Paul McCartney to publish 900-page lyrical ‘autobiography’

The Lyrics, a ‘self-portrait in 154 songs’, will look at the people, places and circumstances behind songs written in boyhood, with the Beatles and beyond

Dead strange … in search of Britain’s most unusual tombs

A travelogue of final resting places seeks to make readers confront their own mortality

A joy forever: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

Two hundred years after his early death, plays, readings and new poetry will honour the legacy of the much beloved author

Ian Rankin: ‘Why does it take celebrity voices for disabled people to be heard?’

Scotland’s pre-eminent crime writer joins broadcaster Jo Whiley berating ‘woeful’ treatment of people with learning difficulties over Covid

‘Look after yourself my darling’: poignant letters salvaged from 1941 shipwreck

Archivists have painstakingly reconstructed the wartime missives recovered from the SS Gairsoppa, sunk by a U-boat off the Irish coast

When is a henge not a henge? When it’s Stonehenge

The standing stones at Avebury and the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney are henges, but it is generally agreed that Stonehenge is not. But why?

‘Outstanding’ Carnegie medal longlist includes three previous winners

Previous winners Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrick Ness and Ruta Sepetys up for prestigious children’s book award, with loss a common theme

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends TV adaptation cast revealed

Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane and Jemima Kirke among stars who will play in 12-part BBC drama

‘Quiet, CS Lewis is on’: why subject of new film could be right for now

Norman Stone’s The Most Reluctant Convert follows author’s conversion from atheism to Christianity

Remembering Jeremy Heywood, the civil servant who ran Britain

In Suzanne Heywood’s memoir, What Does Jeremy Think?, she reveals the inner workings of Whitehall – and its ‘greatest servant’, her husband

What’s in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married

A new biography of the painter Isabel Rawsthorne highlights how talented women have often missed out on the recognition they deserved

Highwayman’s 1750 confessions reveal ‘unusual’ ambivalence about gay sex

Rare pamphlet includes roistering criminal’s surprisingly enlightened attitude to the advances made to him by an innkeeper’s son

Monique Roffey leads strong showing for indies on Rathbones Folio shortlist

The Costa winner is up for award honouring the best work of literature regardless of genre, alongside many other titles from small presses

Maureen Colquhoun obituary

Crusading Labour politician who was the first openly gay MP

Naomi Wolf accused of confusing child abuse with gay persecution in Outrages

Author’s history of Victorian ‘criminalisation of love’ was heavily criticised on publication in 2019. Now its new, revised edition is also under fire