Lauren Brown

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been a staple of science fiction, but editors are seeing a change in how novelists are exploring the subject in light of societal shifts in AI use and familiarity and concern about its implications.

The Costa-shortlisted author reimagines the family saga in her third novel Getting Away, a moving, episodic portrayal of one family’s holidays over a century.

The solicitor and playwright draws on Afro-Caribbean traditions and the strength of community for her Birmingham-set cosy-crime debut.

“Love is a tether, as much as food in this book. It’s the love and the memories that can bring somebody back to us”

With the Noughties music scene serving as a backdrop, Holly Brickley’s debut novel explores the connection between music, art and love.

For Edinburgh-based poet and author Krystelle Bamford, who was born in France but grew up in Ipswich, Massachusetts, writing her debut novel Idle Grounds during lockdown was a way of “trying to write myself back to that place, because I couldn’t physically go there”...

From weathering the ‘existential crisis’ of Covid-19 to remaining relevant in a digital age, Megarry outlines what has made the business work for a quarter of a century and counting.

The author of the Harold Fry trilogy discusses her new novel, The Homemade God.

k Award-winning novel Kingfisher centres on a queer man who finds himself attracted to an elusive older woman.

The relationship counselling charity’s central body is facing financial difficulty because of the financial climate and the loss of government contracts, a spokesperson says

The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded the money from its 10-year, £100m Climate Action Fund

“There’s some urge for me to understand my father, and for me to leave [my sons] a kind of message... I wanted to write something that explains me”

Only 12 per cent of leading charities publicly recognise a trade union, analysis by Third Sector has indicated.