Georgina Godwin

The winners of the 2026 Women’s Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary accolades, have been announced. Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet, both debut authors, won in the fiction and non-fiction categories respectively. Their paths to publication were vastly different. Evans spent years writing books that never found a publisher until her debut, The Correspondent, became a breakthrough success.

The Russian political activist's second book outlines her experience in a penal colony, the art of protest under authoritarian rule and amplifying the voices of Russia's unheard political prisoners. Maria Alyokhina is a Russian political activist known for her work as a member of Pussy Riot, the feminist protest group. The collective was thrust into the global spotlight in 2012 after an audacious performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

An illuminating conversation with Donald Trump's niece, Mary L Trump, about growing up in the Trump family, her early relationship with the president and why she has written a revealing new memoir. Mary L Trump is a psychologist and writer. She is also the niece of the US president and one of his most outspoken critics. Her first book was published in 2020.