Books

Town's book festival to help boost local businesses

'Reading, more than anything, has shaped who I am'

Finalists revealed for 2025 Booker Prize

School drops book about race from Y10 reading list

New Hilary Mantel prize to help emerging writers

Cameras ready to roll at Wigtown Book Festival

Dating apps, booze and clubbing - Jane Austen's Emma comes into the 21st Century

Desert Island Discs. Postcards, Marian Keyes on writing. Audio, 4 minutesDesert Island Discs

Sally Rooney says she cannot enter UK in case of arrest

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown on why failure is a blessing. Video, 00:00:57Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown on why failure is a blessing

Which Roald Dahl character are you?

Ian McEwan on why humankind 'will scrape through'

The 'boring' book aiming to send children to sleep

'My mother was my shelter and storm': Arundhati Roy on her fierce new memoir

Hospital revives ward book trolley after 25 years

Is reading good for you?

'There's a lot of snobbery around spicy fiction' Video, 00:00:59'There's a lot of snobbery around spicy fiction'

Essex actor's latest movie role a 'dream job'

Jacqueline Wilson on the 'easiest and hardest book I've ever written'

Romantasy novels attract new wave of readers

Witness History. The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants. Audio, 10 minutesWitness History

Boy becomes best-selling author with first book

Organisers cancel book prize over trans controversy