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Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 yearsA life-sized bronze statue of Agatha Christie has been unveiled in the Oxfordshire town of Wallingford, near where the detective novelist resid…
The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his countryThey were the rabble-rousing rappers that brought the 1980s racially charged streets of New York to the masses and tu…
A new book, “How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?”, shares the stories of India’s political prisoners.
The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week agoHakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a prof…
The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days A letter written by Ernest Hemingway recounting his harrowing injuries after surviving two successive plane crashes in two da…
Foundation backtracks on earlier announcement that representatives from Russia, Belarus and Iran would be invitedThe Nobel Foundation has reversed its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this year’s Nobel awards ceremony in Stockh…
Samuels Library set to close on 1 October after far-right community members claimed LGBTQ+ books were pornographicA public county library in Virginia is at risk of shutting down after a group of far-right community members launched a campaign to defund…
More than £36,000 raised to support low-income black writers in memory of award-winning poet who went missingThe family of the award-winning poet Gboyega Odubanjo have raised more than £36,000 to help launch a foundation in his memory.Odubanjo went mis…
Ex-MP claims her account will lay bare ‘a corruption of democracy deep at the heart of the Conservative party and in Downing Street’Nadine Dorries’ book on the downfall of Boris Johnson will be delayed until November because of “the required legal proc…
Demand to join Nato, coupled with claim France and Germany would leave, ‘pissed off’ US president, author Franklin Foer reportsIn a development likely to cause consternation in Washington and Kyiv, an eagerly awaited new book says Volodymyr Zelenskiy “…