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This novel is stacked with ideas about Black art and aesthetics - but its language is too clumsy and academic to bring them to life ...

Criminals extorting money online have created huge businesses, complete with branding and HR ...

Packing more punch ...

Cosmologists and physicists come up empty handed when they attempt to pin down time. So what, exactly, is it?

Too often framed as a tragic icon or a victim of domesticity, the poet remade herself and her work at the start of the 60s, as a new collection will show ...

The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories ...

The publisher has cancelled the US release of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and withdrawn the UK edition after weeks of online speculation about the novel's origins ...

Raynor Winn's lawyers have confirmed she published a previous book in 2012, years before the memoir that won a £10,000 prize for debut writers ...

Whidbey by T Kira Madden; Based on a True Story by Sarah Vaughan; Killing Me Softly by Christie Watson; The Dangerous Stranger by Simon Mason; Astronaut! by Oana Aristide ...

The debut author on the brilliance of Charlotte Brontë, coming late to Harper Lee, and aspiring to write like Claire Keegan ...