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Judges praised the 'emotional stakes' of Partridge Boswell's poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize ...

The founder of Europe's largest celebration of Black literature and champion of inclusive reading becomes Queen Camilla's inaugural National Reading Hero ...

Roy's memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me and Doucet's The Finest Hotel in Kabul are joined by books on exile by Ece Temelkuran and Judith Mackrell and an ode to the arts by Daisy Fancourt ...

It's easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term 'mansplaining', whether it's in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights ...

Drawing on a real-life 1960s experiment, this story of an out-of-work actor paid to cover himself in a black leather bag fizzes with wit and invention ...

Sex, booze and subterfuge - the extraordinary friendship of Graham Greene and spy Kim Philby ...

Anna Dempsey's This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers ...

We would like to hear about the books you've particularly enjoyed this month ...

Nostalgia, shame and gossip from Alan Bennett in the fourth instalment of his diaries ...

Grief, betrayal and moral complications are explored across nine tales of quiet power that take us from Argentina to County Wexford ...