Literature

Comedians and former drummer set for city festival
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Wolverhampton
Posted
3 days ago
Neil Gaiman faces more sexual assault allegations
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Culture
Posted
4 days ago
Orwell's literary legacy featured on new £2 coin
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Oxford
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5 days ago
Young writers urged to go on a journey
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Guernsey
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6 days ago
The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine
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Africa
Posted
6 January
Our culture isn't fantasy - so stop misusing it for mystical books
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Wales
Posted
5 January
Normal Rules Don't Apply. Audio, 57 minutes
A specially curated concert recorded at the Barbican combining words and classical music.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for 15 days
'Masterful' novelist David Lodge dies aged 89
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Culture
Posted
3 January
'Love of horror made me a bestselling author'
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Birmingham & Black Country
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1 January
Enjoy travel without leaving home, says artist
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Cambridgeshire
Posted
1 January
How India's food shortage filled American libraries
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Asia
Posted
30 December 2024
The library where books are kept under lock and key. Video, 00:01:20
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Somerset
Posted
27 December 2024
Classic novel off GCSE list amid racial slurs fear
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Wales
Posted
23 December 2024
Literary line-up announced for annual festival
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Guernsey
Posted
15 December 2024
Witness History. The ‘Three Marias’ Audio, 9 minutes
In 1974, a judge decided if three Portuguese women should be jailed for writing a book
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Line up announced for literature festival
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Wolverhampton
Posted
2 December 2024
Storytime sessions encouraging children to read
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Cornwall
Posted
28 November 2024
Best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford dies
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Culture
Posted
25 November 2024
Lives Less Ordinary. How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel. Audio, 40 minutes
Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Patient sues Algerian author over claims he used her in novel
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World
Posted
21 November 2024
Witness History. Lord of the Flies. Audio, 9 minutes
It’s 70 years since William Golding’s acclaimed novel was published
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
British author Samantha Harvey wins Booker with space story
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Culture
Posted
12 November 2024
Indian officials misplace Rushdie book ban order
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Asia
Posted
8 November 2024
Algeria silent after civil war book wins top French award
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World
Posted
5 November 2024