HISTORICAL FACTS: Faber - The Untold Story

Gaining Ground review: a pleasingly unsettling feminist cult classic

A 50-year-old rediscovery provides a welcome riposte to lean-in feminists and tradwives

Evening Standard · Jul 30

Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Dogs v bears from Max Porter; a baby adventure; an Irish boarding school murder mystery; and an unsettling YA folk horror

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24

Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16

16 books to have on your radar in 2026

THE LIST: No guarantees, of course, but Annabel Nugent thinks these hot titles will be some of next year’s best

The Independent UK · Dec 24, 2025

William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece

Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the age

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025

Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches

As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2025

“A very clever original design, albeit one that could easily have come out of the Gibson factory in the early ’60s. That’s not easy to do”: Ivison Dakota Standard review

Used by big names such as Richard Fortus and Audley Freed, and made in the UK, Ivisonguitars recall the lost art of the ‘goldenera’ but in very original dress

Guitar World · Aug 18, 2025

50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection on Troubles to be marked

A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts on the poet.

Evening Standard · Jun 1, 2025

Society summer: your guide to London's hottest parties and events

From secret literary salons to the Serpentine’s celebrity-studded lawns, we bring you the inside track on the most exclusive parties of the season — and the ones you can actually get into

Evening Standard · May 22, 2025

Brian Thornton wins The Conversation Prize for writers for his story Convicting the Innocent

Congratulations to Brian Thornton from Winchester University who is the 2025 winner of The Conversation Prize for writers, for his story Convicting the Innocent, a look at the systemic barriers facing people wrongly convicted of a crime.

The Conversation · Mar 5, 2025