The broadcaster reveals she has smouldering myeloma, which can develop into a type of blood cancer.

Enjoy extracts from all the novels shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 – an ‘energising’ selection of books

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

A Novel of Georgia

The Schlegel-Tieck Prize is an annual award for translations into English of full length German works of literary merit and general interest. The winner is awarded £3,000 and a runner-up...

An original short work for Radio 4 by Jade Angeles Fitton

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

Plus Angela Flournoy’s “The Wilderness.”

Nino Haratischwili discusses nostalgia and the chaos of 1990s Georgia in her epic novel “The Lack of Light”

Tbilisi, 1987 The evening light was tangled in her hair. She was nearly there; at any moment she would overcome this barrier, too, would press her body against the railing with all her strength unt…

The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.

It’s bad for the planet and could make many jobs – including mine – obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that, says writer Imogen West-Knights

Writer Zdena Salivarová has died at the age of 91. Together with her husband, Škvorecký, she wrote books and published authors via their publishing house, 68 Publishers.