PalFest may not be the best-known literary festival, but it serves to underline literature’s ability to transcend violence and hatred, says Lee Brackstone.... Read more
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The founder of children's fiction production company Storymix Jasmine Richards is the guest judge at this year's FAB Prize, for undiscovered writers and illustrators from... Read more
Paul Mendez, Deepa Anappara and Ingrid Persaud are among the debut authors longlisted for the £2,500 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. ... Read more
Actors Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn are to star in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, Conversations with Friends (Faber). ... Read more