3 d. ago Oscar's Book Prize 2025 shortlist revealed: £10,000 prize showcases writing and illustrating talent from across UK

The £10,000 award for the best picture book for young children this year spotlights authors and illustrators based from Cornwall to North Yorkshire

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8 d. ago International Booker Prize shortlist 2025: ‘Truly disturbing and achingly beautiful’ global stories

Selection features stories that offer ‘a miraculous lens through which to view human experience’

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9 d. ago Trump news at a glance: Wild swings on global markets as Trump threatens further China tariffs

Extreme volatility has plagued global stock markets, with Donald Trump defying stark warnings about economic damage – key US politics stories from 7 April Global stock markets fell catastrophically on Monday following President Trump’s tariff rollout.Despite the economic turmoil, the US president doubled down on his plan, threatening to impose an additional 50% tariff on imports from China on Wednesday, unless the country rescinds its retaliatory tariffs on the United States by Tuesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Elizabeth Strout, Miranda July and four debut writers make the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

From novels described as a 'Muslim Fleabag' to those endorsed by Gillian Anderson, the Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist has collated the most exciting and original novels of the year

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2 w. ago The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is here – these are my must

From coming-of-age stories to sexual awakenings, these six titles have been recognised as future classics

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2 w. ago Women’s Prize for Fiction unveils 2025 shortlist featuring four debut novelists tackling identity, history and self

The category is dominated by new voices, joined by previous nominees Miranda July and Elizabeth Stout

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2 w. ago ‘A different philosophy of things’: how Solvej Balle got ahead of Groundhog Day’s time

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International BookerIf you’ve heard about Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I, longlisted for this year’s International Booker prize, you may have experienced a sensation that is central to the Danish writer’s brand of philosophical speculative fiction: deja vu.In Balle’s five-book opus (of a planned septology), the first three of which won the prestigious Nordic Council literature prize in 2022, someone wakes up to find they are reliving the same day over and over. Their partner, family, neighbours: they all experience this day for the first time in their life. Only the protagonist has been there before. That person is a woman called Tara rather than a man called Phil, and the day is 18 November rather than 2 February, but the plot resemblance to Groundhog Day ...

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