Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work

Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer

Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste

As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes

On the merits of celebrity authors and literary book prizes

John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain

From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring

There are now so many awards that not winning one must seem a source of shame

Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty