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From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up ...

Rumens, whose column ran for nearly 20 years and developed a loyal readership, died this week aged 81 ...

The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed; The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro; No Ghosts by Max Lury; Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler; Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon ...

The Women's prize-shortlisted author on being obsessed with Judy Blume, hating Jane Austen at first, and the joys of Tove Jansson ...

Fearing the worst can lead to physical changes, according to this fascinating study of a strange medical phenomenon ...

This 15th-century royal romp of intrigue and courtly conspiracy is given extra charismatic verve by John Hollingworth's rambunctious narration ...

The feverish interiority of a young woman abroad is captured with offbeat wit and disarming candour in the first novel from the translator of Butter ...

A history of the social and cultural impact of DH Lawrence's novel shows how it inspired comedy as well as controversy ...

The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her much-loved series ...

Eerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village ...