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  • ‘It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to write a character well in the past who is not a projection back of modern sensibilities. My defence would be that the 16th century was the time when rational, sceptical inquiry was beginning. This was the age of the humanists: we're leaving medieval...

More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016, BBC analysis has found.

The New Trend In Book Covers Is Old-Timey Animals

NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors.

Books, comics, films, video games ... does it matter how children discover stories? Keeping an open mind is just one way to help get them hooked

Why authors in Zimbabwe are channelling Dickens by serialising their novels through the messaging app

I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s - here's what I discovered

A day after the UK signed the first international treaty addressing the risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has called on the UK government to go further and protect "creators" from a "mass violation of their rights".

Link: Q&A: novelist Sally Page 9 September 2024

Sally Page's third novel, The Secrets of Flowers, tells the story of a trainee florist who begins to research the flowers on the Titanic

Forensic anthropologist turned author Clea Koff on how her work has inspired her debut novel, Silent Evidence

After 14 novels into my career as an author, here are my tips for surviving the rollercoaster ride.

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