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Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he 'gets nothing in the way of royalties', show authors at their most vulnerable ...

The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer ...

The author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting Nabokov ...

This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality ...

Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether ...

Andy Serkis revels in his narration of the first murder mystery from the author of This Is Going to Hurt, which showcases Kay's signature pitch-black humour ...

This nebulous study of Luigi Mangione veers close to romanticising him as a latter-day Robin Hood ...

The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world war ...

The debut novel took the top prize while The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was named children's book of the year ...

The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration ...