These books by authors from Northern Ireland will help inspire you to get back into reading this year

Sonny Green, from Southend-on-Sea, says performing for the ITV judges was "surreal".

The books, which were due to be returned in March 1976, were unearthed at a Beverley charity shop.

Same-sex romance has flourished in Asia as a haven of fantasy and escapism for women and the queer community.

How has Cornwall inspired Winston Graham, EV Thompson, Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier?

A literary festival is returning to Devon for the first time in almost a decade this weekend.

Elspeth Snelling, from Beverley, will receive support to help develop her career as a poet.

Michael Laskey says he is "still finding it hard to believe" after receiving the recognition.

SF Williamson's debut novel A Language of Dragons is in the Books for Older Readers category.