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Pebbles on the beach; adventures in evolution; a search for sea nomads; furious gods; a history of LGBTQ+ activism and more ...

The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins ...

The much-loved painter, designer of stamps and creator of anti-war posters shares tips from a 90-year career ...

A revelatory cultural history of our relationship with native wildlife, from newts doing handstands to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle ...

Romance, sci-fi and family drama are thrillingly combined in this Booker-winning novel, shared between three narrators ...

This Catalonian tale of a botched pact with the devil has the demonic excess of a Hieronymus Bosch painting ...

The uprisings in Russia, China and Cuba seen through the eyes of reporters John Reed, Edgar Snow and Herbert Matthews ...

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer wins £2,025 for 'compelling tale that, like all good stories about robots, is ultimately about the human condition'

Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town ...

Characters who challenge stereotypes, stories that stimulate little ones' vocabulary, endless laughter and moments guaranteed to make any dad cry. Here are your takes on the work of a beloved children's author ...