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Our annual pick of the most exciting debut fiction has previously tipped Sally Rooney and Louise Kennedy, Tom Crewe and Douglas Stuart. Here the class of 2024 tell us their stories

With over 167 billion views on TikTok, reviews and recommendations in the global BookTok community have inspired Gen Zs to ditch their screens in favour of a good old-fashioned book.

Get your notebooks ready to plan your 2024 reading.

Will KJ-T strike Olympic gold? Will Sunak go for an early election? How much will Taylor Swift fans bring to the UK economy? From tech to fashion, food to politics, the Observer’s top writers predict who and what will make the headlines

Bristol24/7’s writers round up their cultural highlights of the year

The Polari Prize program for UK and Irish books relative to LGBTQ themes announced its 2024 winners: Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom.

Twenty-five years is a long and a short time in the life of the written word. Since Scottish Book Trust was founded in 1998, hundreds of Scottish…

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Khem K Aryal talks about his recently published book, ‘The In-Betweeners’, and writing about the South Asian experience in the US.

Before being shortlisted for the prize, Lynch’s book sold 2,643 copies. Last weekend that figure rose to 8,095