Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun has been named the best winner from the past ten years of the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction. Half of a Yellow Sun won in 2007, when its author was 29.
• Conal Macintyre, a musician who performs as Mull Historical Society, has won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for his debut novel, The Letters of Ivor Punch.