TikTok launches the UK's first official #BookTok Bestseller List for the National Year of Reading 2026. Female authors dominate the inaugural top 20 as the app fuels a £86million publishing boom.

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The shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction was finally announced last month, with six novels that “interrogate the wealth of roles women play in society, the power they hold, and the extent ...

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AI-assisted violence is pushing women out of public life, finds a new UN Women report co-authored by researchers at City St George’s, University of London. More women in public life are self-censoring ...