The International Booker Prize has announced the six books shortlisted for its annual celebration of the best new fiction ...

David Roy chats to award-winning Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell about the Belfast Book Festival’s Mairtín Crawford Awards ...

April 5, 2025 • The children's book author best known for her Oliver and Amanda Pig series has died at 87. Van Leeuwen wrote nearly 60 books, some of which sold millions of copies. April 2 ...

The best books transport readers in ways a plane ... figure of the Harlem Renaissance and published journalism, short stories and poems while working as a teacher in segregated schools.

Best known as ... staunchly women-centred stories are frighteningly real, but given a surreal slant that makes them all the more memorable. The 30 tales range from short feminist takes on the ...

Directors Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) The Oscar for animated short film went to ... an acceptance speech written in English, not their native language.

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words ... “It’s OK, Mom. You’re my best friend.” She stared at me. I stared back, thinking we were having ...