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As research reveals children want to listen to books rather than read them, here are some of the best audiobooks to enjoyMinisters urged to add audiobooks to England’s new schools curriculumThe popularity of audiobooks among young children and teenager…
Charity calls for move after poll finds ‘crisis’ levels of reading for pleasure and rise in 8- to 18-year-olds enjoying audio• From The Sheep-Pig to His Dark Materials: the best audiobooks for children and teensThe government has been urged to include …
White Horse is based on beloved book and explores importance of place, family, home and belongingThe stories about life in Cornwall have flowed in: the hairdresser who gives everyone the same style because it copes best with the elements; the teacher w…
More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government’s plans to loosen …
Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?In 1998, the late journalist Joan Didion wrote a scathing essay about the posthumous publication of True at First Light, a travel journal and fictional memoir by Erne…
Pair declined to give public endorsement of Trump in wake of 7 October attacks, All or Nothing by Michael Wolff revealsDonald Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, refused to sign a statement saying Trump was not antis…
Jury convicts Hadi Matar, 27, charged with trying to kill author at literary gathering in New York state in 2022A jury on Friday afternoon convicted the man who was charged with stabbing and trying to kill the author Salman Rushdie as he delivered a le…
Matthew Teller, whose books include Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, said the society’s response to the event which saw two leading booksellers detained was ‘an abject failure’A writer has left the Society of Authors (SoA) in protest after the UK’s largest …
‘If he likes it so much, then let him go,’ says author
Google has gained permission to sell its e-books and audiobooks directly to customers through its iOS app, Google Play Books. From a report: While iOS apps today can offer access to content previously purchased elsewhere, like e-books bought via a webs…