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The TV presenter and author on discovering the beauty of Charles Dickens and why John Fowles put him off writing for 30 years ...

Is giving an artist a one-star review an act of abuse? An influential theatre critic finds out in this smart story of #MeToo-era revenge ...

A former music journalist's exploration of how we listen is informed by her life-changing experience of motherhood ...

The 27-year-old's prizewinning debut, Glasgow Boys, is a coming-of-age novel about the friendship between two boys who have grown up in the care system ...

In this frank, exposing memoir, Jong-Fast reflects on her dysfunctional upbringing as her family falls apart ...

Income from audiobooks reached a record £268m in 2024, according to figures from the Publishers Association ...

To soundtrack those long, lazy afternoons try Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's torrid love affair, a real-life pirate of the Caribbean or Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot ...

From buzzards in Oxfordshire to cranes in Kent - how once common birds left their mark in British place names ...

A young gay Black man escapes from grief into the hedonism of upper-echelon New York, in a lyrical tale of redemption ...

Six 'inspiring new voices' made the list, which features a Saltburn-style summer holiday and a Swedish bestseller ...