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The first novel by the film-maker Woody Allen is due to be released later this year by independent publisher Swift Press.The book, titled What’s With Baum?,…

Scott Ellsworth’s new book, Midnight on the Potomac, is about the last year of the American civil war and “the crime of the century”: the assassination…

Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the most massive merger between two black holes yet observed, resulting in…

Books are kept in hermetically sealed plastic sacks for disinfection, at the Pannonhalma Archabbey’s library in Pannonhalma, Hungary on July 3. Bela Szandelszky/AP hide caption toggle…

American author Elizabeth Strout has captured millions of readers’ imaginations with her small-town stories of ordinary people with rich inner lives. Her novels – often set…

It has been one of the films of the summer so far – the tale of Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, who embark on the…

If you could travel back in time, where would you go, and when? For readers of historical fiction, there’s no need to settle on just one…

A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.When a woman’s clothes constrict…

Michael Keohan & Christian FullerBBC News, South EastGetty ImagesKent County Council says it has removed all transgender-related books from the children’s sections of its librariesA council…