Hello, fellow crime enthusiasts! I hope you’re all keeping well as we move into autumn (a rainy one here in Wales). Without further ado, here are three excellent crime novels I’ve enjoy…

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission. About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday, a week before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law. Continue reading...

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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into lyrical gestures. Sylvie Kandé’s Gestuary offers a collection of gestures—of death…

Our universities are rapidly losing the very faculty for speaking foreign languages.

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Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Mrs. Peabody’s 2025 Christmas list features the perfect gift for every crime lover in your life — including yourself! Eight novels set in America, England, Norway, Scotland, Croatia and the f…

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A hefty book of 556 pages, so most certainly not a novella, but the sixth in the Gereon Rath crime fiction series, a part of them having been adapted for TV in the internationally successful Babylo…

OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission