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An empathetic biography of the the singer recasts her tumultuous later career as a triumph of self-expression ...

The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises ...

10 poets are in the running for the prestigious £25,000 prize, with collections that 'remind us why it's to poetry we turn to reorient ourselves'

The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper ...

The Talking Heads frontman considers the art and science that made a comeback - from Indian irrigation to Kafka ...

Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent characters ...

See past the prickles ...

It's a powerful analogy that captured the popular consciousness, but the biological reality may be quite different ...

The co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign and author of The Book of Trespass discusses the Oxfordshire riverside community he calls home and how Hardwick Hall has been taken back by the people ...

A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks ...