Ella Creamer

Sebastian Coe has admitted the Paris Olympics this summer will not be drug free, but his fervent hope is that they will be cleaner than previous games

Author of Anansi’s Gold, a nonfiction account of a notorious Ghanian conman ‘told with biting wit’, wins £1,000 award

Author of novel Prophet Song about an imagined fascist Ireland tells Hay audience he is not a political writer

Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at once

Former Conservative MP Rory Stewart found being a politician “very yucky” and felt like a fraud, he told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.

Historian tells Hay festival audience that failure to acknowledge shift ‘infects our view of ourselves’

The announcement comes two weeks after Indian officials granted permission to prosecute the writer over comments she made 14 years ago

The Pulitzer winner’s third novel My Friends is based on an event from 1984, when officials opened fire on protesters at the Libyan embassy in London

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

The children’s author and screenwriter, who takes over from Joseph Coelho, pledged to address ‘invisible privilege and inequality’