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My earliest reading memoryI read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien at seven, in my bedroom in…

A Tararua iwi has launched a set of bilingual books retelling the journey of their ancestor from Hawaiki…

Shaun Peel and Katy PrickettCambridgeshire Martin Giles/BBC Hephzibah wrote a book with a black lead character after complaining…

It is bizarre to learn that, despite a career spent desperately trying to fill the dancefloor, reading the room…

Hephzibah said she had always loved going to her local library, but when she was about eight years…

The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part…

Friday, 19 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Top 10 bestsellers Wild Card (Elsie Silver, Piatkus) The Secret of…

Friday, 19 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Readers of fiction and poetry will be keen to learn what’s…

Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of…

A member of the committee reviewing the books confirmed the ban on books written by women, telling BBC…

In the past year or so, three Australian publishing mergers happened within a few short months. Text Publishing,…

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