This year’s shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced. 

The Guardian reviews Collecting Sticks, Joe Decie’s graphic novel about a family glamping trip. 

This week’s Guardian Books podcast takes a look at the Man Booker International longlist and interviews Dorthe Nors about her novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.

Joanna Cannon, whose debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep was a 2016 favourite, has another book in the works. 

The Stripes anthology A Change is Gonna Come is a “brilliant response to the dearth of BAME voices in UK publishing“. 

BBC reporter Evan Davis is the latest to announce a book exploring our post-truth era.

Sixty members of Bromley library staff are due to strike in response to cuts.

The Pool has an excerpt of Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.