The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce one winner for the 2025 Award: Luminous, by Silvia Park. We’re also announcing an Honor List and a Long List.

Philip Pullman is a master of magical worlds, and his own magnificent stories are loved and appreciated by people of all ages, just as the best fairy tales

Buy Pim Wangtechawat tickets at Live Stream, Worldwide for 6th March 2026, 18:30 at Fane

As the United States nears its 250th anniversary, Tayari Jones meets fellow novelist Jay McInerney to explore American ideas of belonging, identity and memory.

The follow-up to Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line explores the history of colonial exploration through a perilous 19th-century odyssey

Oneworld has acquired Female Life on Planet Earth by Iranian novelist Laleh Khadivi in a five-way “hotly contested” auction with the publisher offering an “unprecedented, strong six-figure advance”.

From prosthetic testicles for dogs to sociable reptiles, a behavioural scientist explains what we get wrong – and right – about animal minds

Map Monday - Edenglassie Discover the maps of books with TheBookTrail Literary Travel Agency and Bookmap Emporium! Travel by the book

Survivors, witnesses and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential tower block in London — and the investigation that ensued.

China, famously, built the Great Wall to defend against nomadic groups from the Eurasian steppe. For two millennia, China interacted with groups from the north: The Xiongnu, the Mongols, the Manchu…

When Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a transcendent performance...

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie; The Incandescent by Emily Tesh; Land of Hope by Cate Baum; A Line You Have Traced by Roisin Dunnett

From pre-Roman Britain to Weimar Germany, our critics pick the year’s most captivating reads. Discover gripping tales and forgotten histories

Funmi Fetto’s tales of nine African women; Issa Quincy’s haunting vignettes; Louise Hegarty’s sparkling yet sad crime novel; Alexander Sammartino’s black comedy; and Saba Sams’ tender take on the mess...