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Donna Fisher is the winner of this year’s The Libraro Prize for her novel Sheep’s Clothing By DONNA FISHER Published: 04:15 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 04:22 EDT, 22 May 2026 <!-- --> <!--…

By GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 04:20 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 04:22 EDT, 22 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- Dissection of a…

By ANTHONY CUMMINS Published: 04:25 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 04:34 EDT, 22 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- THE CORRESPONDENT by…

What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers (Torva £16.99, 288pp) is available now from the Mail BookshopBy MARK MASON Published: 04:30 EDT, 22 May 2026 | Updated: 04:34 EDT, 22 May 2026 <!-- -->…

In September 2022, the celebrated American author Paul Auster found his progress on a new novel interrupted by a fever that laid him low every afternoon ‘like clockwork’, requiring him to step away from his beloved typewriter earlier…

An interviewer asked the novelist Muriel Spark about the cruelty and violence she inflicted upon her characters in her novels. Did she hate her characters?‘Oh, no,’ Spark replied. ‘I love them most intensely, like a cat loves a bird. You…

On a hot August day, a young woman weaves her way down narrow corridors. In her haste, she slips on the smooth floors and is caught ‘in the strength of a man’s arms’. He rights her and sends her on her way, calling ‘be careful, my child’…

By CLAIRE ALLFREE Published: 04:00 EDT, 15 May 2026 | Updated: 04:05 EDT, 15 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- The Things We Never Say …

By SARA LAWRENCE Published: 04:05 EDT, 15 May 2026 | Updated: 04:10 EDT, 15 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- I Want You to Be Happy by…

By BARRY TURNER Published: 04:10 EDT, 15 May 2026 | Updated: 04:13 EDT, 15 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- The Double Turn by Carol…