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Impossible Creatures, about a realm where all the creatures of myth still live, was declared ‘as close to perfect as fiction gets’ by the retailer’s head of books

Britain needs to rediscover its literary heritage, says Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell pops up on my screen as if by magic. She has just been announced as the winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year, for her children’s novel Impossible Creatures, though when we speak, she’s in Cornwall, near Padstow, where she goes to write. At 36, she’s already gathering quite a collection of awards: she won a Costa prize in 2017 for her novel Explorers, and last year, she won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for Super-Infinite, her biography of ...

Youngest female scholar to be made a Fellow of the University of Oxford’s All Souls College has won the Waterstones Book of the Year Award.

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The Impossible Creatures author discusses her love of Jane Austen and Shakespeare, the poem that saved her and her guiltiest cultural pleasure as she lets us into her cultural life

Presenting terrific new works from Jon Agee, Kate Sheehy, Noel Fitzpatrick, Sinéad O’Hart, Katherine Rundell and Patricia Forde

The extravagantly gifted children’s writer on the cult of the billionaire, her crush on Aslan the lion, and John Donne as a sex educator

Godolphin announces top line up for Literary Festival 2023.    

Good morning from London where the FTSE 100 fell at today’s open before rebounding, and getting back to those four-month high levels from Friday. The big...