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As a lonely teenager, the novels of Nancy Mitford offered the Sorrow and Bliss author a lifeline, and an imaginary friend. She explores why reading can create a particularly intense bond with a favourite writer ...

Midlife meditations from Barbara Kingsolver; musical portraits by Jonathan Coe and Yiyun Li; plus memoirs from Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench - all among the coming season's highlights ...

The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio; Short Circuit by Wolf Haas; Cosmos by Lucia Odoom; The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest ...

The TV presenter and author on the evolutionary biologists who inspired her, the genius of George Eliot - and fun with Frog and Toad ...

A teasing tale of the friendship between a writer and an actor explores the fallout from fame, and the blurring between pretence and reality ...

The country risks 'the collapse of the entire book ecosystem' following destruction of warehouses in July and August, say Ukrainian publishers ...

Helena Bonham Carter narrates the playwright's impressionistic memoir, written as she was experiencing the loss of her memory ...

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some wonderful new paperbacks, from a short story collection by a literary great to razor-sharp criticism ...

The comedian charts his life in demos from 1960s Liverpool to 2020s London in this fiery and addictive book ...

A historian charts the emergence of a democracy-crushing dystopia that is - in some ways - already with us ...