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The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world things about race ...

This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity ...

The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood ...

Speaking at the Royal Institution, the author and screenwriter linked falling literacy rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media ...

A wannabe folk singer's humdrum life as a shrimp catcher is upended by the arrival of a mysterious American stranger in the Booker-listed tale ...

This moving work about an irascible woman in her 70s who conducts her most intimate relationships through letters has been shortlisted for the Women's prize ...

It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism - what can this historic city tell us about democracy?

British author Donna Fisher has won the Libraro prize for the unpublished manuscript of her 'provocative and timely' book, Sheep's Clothing ...

From Édith Piaf to Charli xcx, a moving study of the ways women express themselves - and the obstacles they face ...

Radical hope and rage combine in this tale of ecological precarity and resistance among sex workers on a brothel island ...