Tracy Bloom

More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016, BBC analysis has found.

NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors.

Books, comics, films, video games ... does it matter how children discover stories? Keeping an open mind is just one way to help get them hooked

I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s - here's what I discovered

Sally Page's third novel, The Secrets of Flowers, tells the story of a trainee florist who begins to research the flowers on the Titanic