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As new national poet, the Gaelic speaker is looking at all of the languages spoken in the country, to see 'what we can learn between them'

The joy of house parties, an email to an estate agent, tales from a billionaire's dolls and more ...

Tales of Ohio hoop dreams, Joseph O'Neill's football-accented new novel and the effect of the climate crisis on sport ...

Charity cites AI and cost of living among reasons for a nearly fivefold increase in grant applications between last year and this year ...

Richard Dawkins's greatest hits, the diaries of a sociopath and a history of the gut ...

The Britpop bass player's engaging memoir of the last Blur reunion reads like a freewheeling adventure without consequences - except when he crosses 'the boss'

A choice of whodunnits, a return for le Carré's Smiley, and dark, disturbing encounters in the woods ...

A stylish love letter to the Ukrainian port charts its transformation from exotic mafia capital to beacon of freedom and, now, battered Russian target ...

The second run of the UK/Irish awards covers adult and children's fiction, debut novels and nonfiction, with tales that stretch from surreal expeditions to lost sailors and schoolboy lizards ...

As part of the award, the author will have a gloucestershire old spots pig named after his debut book which is set in ancient Sicily ...