Jennie Godfrey’s The List of Suspicious Things (Hutchinson Heinemann), Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky (Viking) ...

Bestselling biographer and agent Andrew Lownie warns that “history is growing censored” with royal records apparently becoming closed after being open for many years.

Usborne has acquired The Heirs, the ‘addictive’ new YA murder mystery from Ace of Spades author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has launched a new Intellectual Freedom Committee to help library professionals “counter the disturbing effects of censorship”.