AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoWalliams Investigation: London police are investigating allegations of serious sexual offences against children’s author David Walliams, who denies wrongdoing. Schools and library services are split over whether to remove his books, putting questions of reader access and author accountability in the spotlight. Booker Milestone: M. John Harrison, 81, has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything — the first science-fiction novel to take the award, a landmark for a genre long kept apart from literary fiction. AI and Authorship: Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza was cleared of using AI to write his prize-winning story after a human-led inquiry, renewing concerns that detection tools can wrongly accuse writers. Bookshops: Ripon, Wisconsin, has gained its first children’s bookstore, Rabbit Hole Book & Toy Co., founded by local owner Brooke Knoll.
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