Should the problematic apostrophe be dropped from the English language?

Working in a bookstore, Elias Greig discovered they are not the repository of human decency you might expect.

UK debut novelist Emma Glass tells Claire Nichols about the break that took her from nursing to writing.

Bram Presser has won the Voss Prize for his debut novel, The Book of Dirt.

On the surface, Love is Blind - a sweeping romance about a Scottish piano tuner who is obsessed with a Russian opera singer - has nothing to do with the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. But dig deeper, and he's there.

Scottish author William Boyd on his latest novel Love is Blind — an homage to Anton Chekhov, the apostrophe wars with Tiger Webb and Louisa Fitzhardinge, bookseller Elias Greig on his funny encounters with customers, and six year old school children chose their favourite reads.

Scottish author William Boyd on his latest novel Love is Blind — an homage to Anton Chekhov, the apostrophe wars with Tiger Webb and Louisa Fitzhardinge, bookseller Elias Greig on his funny encounters with customers, and six year old school children chose their favourite reads.

Scottish author William Boyd on his latest novel Love is Blind — an homage to Anton Chekhov, the apostrophe wars with Tiger Webb and Louisa Fitzhardinge, bookseller Elias Greig on his funny encounters with customers, and six year old school children chose their favourite reads.

Louisa Collins was hanged in 1888 for murdering her husband...she was tried for killing the other one too. Janet Lee gets inside her head in her debut novel.

Louisa Collins was hanged in 1888 for murdering her husband...she was tried for killing the other one too. Janet Lee gets inside her head in her debut novel.