Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete my book in time

Podcast Episode · The 15 Minute Book Club · 17/12/2025 · 18m

ALT: a woman in a purple shirt is saying i can hear the voices in my head again

More than half (51%) of published novelists in the UK believe AI is likely to end up replacing their work, says a new survey of 258 authors from the University of Cambridge.

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

YouTube video by International Spy Museum

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

The government's consultation on AI and copyright must inspire action from everyone in publishing.

More than 48,000 creators including Kate Bush and Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus say Labour’s preferred option is unfair and unworkable

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Welsh author Lucie McKnight Hardy is moving to John Murray with a new folk horror novel.

Unicorn Academy series author Julie Sykes and art historian Ruth Millington have been plagued by fake author profiles on Facebook and Instagram, revealing ’anger, frustration and vulnerability’ over t...

Investigate the story of the Stuarts (1603 to 1714) in the context of the political, social, religious, economic and cultural history of seventeenth century Britain.

YouTube video by Dave Reads King (Dave Musson)

It’s been a year since we launched the Reclaim Your Brain newsletter, so we reached out to subscribers to see how they’re doing

Greg Jenner takes us to 16th-century Ireland to meet pirate queen Grainne O’Malley.