Word of the Day - Pratal (adj) prat-al
Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being removed from the shelves of Hungary’s Pannonhalma Archabbey as restoration workers race to save them from a devastating beetle infestation threatening to…
Created by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and co-written by Gatiss and Matthew Sweet (Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures), Bookish is a new series for U&Alibi which introduces a quirky new TV…
Word of the Day - Mavourneen (noun) muh-vor-neen
Word of the Day - Wample (Scots) (verb) wom-pl
Word of the Day - Fichu (noun) fish-oo / fee-shy
For years, Goodreads has been a cornerstone of the book community: a place where readers share recommendations, track their reading, and review books. But for many authors, particularly those from…
Word of the Day - Mundify (verb) mun-di-fahy
The Women’s Prize Trust, which runs both the Prize for Fiction and Non-fiction, have confirmed that trans women will be eligible to enter the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. This…
Word of the Day - Glaucous (adj) glaw-kus
When Raynor Winn’s memoir The Salt Path hit shelves in 2018, it quickly became a publishing phenomenon. Readers were moved by her poignant account of walking 630 miles along England’s…
Word of the Day - Crabwise (adverb) krab-wayhz
Word of the Day - Plook (noun) plook
Word of the Day - Casuistry (noun) kas-oo-is-tree
Word of the Day - Exequy (noun) ek-si-kwee
Word of the Day - Mettle (noun) met-l
The “Dollar Baby” concept: Since the late 1970s/early 1980s, Stephen King has allowed student filmmakers, independent filmmakers, and other aspiring directors to license certain of his short stories for film…
Kent Council, under the control of far-right political party Reform UK, are removing all transgender-related books from the children’s sections of its libraries. The council’s leader, Linden Kemkaran, made the…
Word of the Day - Tatterdemalion (noun) tat-er-di-mal-ee-on
An independent bookshop in San Francisco has pulled all Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling titles from its bookshelves in response to the author’s anti-trans views and campaigning; most notably, funding…