Another week, another horror story. This week it’s the Cornell 7. Amelia Fairney and her son PJ give us some advice and tell us what helped them

Reform-led Essex County Council has told library staff to scale back promotion of events such as Pride and Black History Month.

The Persepolis author understood us and translated us for the world. We have lost our most eloquent spokesperson

Transworld’s Simon Taylor has pre-emptively acquired two novels from Jon Courtenay Grimwood in a world rights deal struck with John Jarrold.

Podcast Episode · The Shift with Sam Baker · 31 March · 48min

Podcast Episode · The Shift with Sam Baker · 25/11/2025 · 1h

"If I could turn the clock back 30 years and have children I would, but only if I could still do all the other things."

Hands up anyone who's ever been made to feel entitled for wanting sex that doesn't hurt! Plus the things I've found that actually helped me

Podcast Episode · The Shift with Sam Baker · 17/06/2025 · 55m

This little boy was told he wasn't good enough. Yesterday he got a PhD from St Andrews university

A bit of a rant

I read a lot (A LOT) of books. Here's an entirely personal list of the ones I think are worth your case space

Podcast Episode · The Shift with Sam Baker · 20/05/2025 · 58m

Giuffre’s family issue statement confirming she killed herself at her farm in Western Australia

Find out why Miranda July is on this year’s list

Up and not crying? Just about? Me too

Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier, Daljit Nagra and other Society of Authors (SoA) members will demonstrate outside Meta HQ after millions of pirated books were allegedly used to train Meta’s artificial int...

Chat GPT’s Studio Ghibli AI app has left the film company powerless to prevent its art being used in propaganda

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment – and questioning how we tell stories about murderous men