Emma Loffhagen

The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood

Emma Loffhagen Frank Cottrell-Boyce has urged policymakers to treat children's reading as a “right” rather than a parental duty, warning

In this warm and tender debut, the family of Barbados-born Lucinda must try to document her decades in Britain after the Home Office threatens her with deportation

The author of historical novel Taiwan Travelogue, and its translator Lin King, discuss the threat from Beijing, LGBTQ+ rights and the island’s culinary delicacies

Twenty years after their abrupt split, Mis-Teeq are reuniting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Lickin’ On Both Sides’, the double-platinum debut album that helped bring UK garage out of the underground and into the mainstream, and all without sanding down its edges.

Now in its 10th year, the £1,000 competition is held by publisher 4th Estate and the Guardian, and open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers in the UK and Ireland

Nicola Sturgeon said she “should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men” after Peter Murrell, her estranged husband, admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the SNP this week.

Ex-SNP leader says she has appeared on more front pages than her husband this week, adding it is not right

Sajid Javid said that supporting Liz Truss in the Conservative leadership contest that ultimately made her prime minister was his “biggest mistake in politics”.

Former chancellor also tells Hay festival ‘good riddance’ to Tory MPs defecting to Reform