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Mick Herron's Slow Horses, Belinda Bauer's obsessive world of bird egg collectors, Uketsu's innovative Japanese detective mystery - and more ...

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments ...

Sami Tamimi celebrates Palestine's culinary heritage, Helen Goh uncovers the psychological benefits of baking and Roopa Gulati reveals tricks used in the best Indian kitchens ...

A new read-aloud favourite, doughnuts with world-conquering ambitions, high fantasy from Katherine Rundell, and more ...

The return of Nobel laureate Han Kang; film-making under the Nazis; stuck in a time loop; Scandinavian thrills; and essential stories from postwar Iraq ...

A sharply satirical attack on unevenly applied 19th-century laws to enforce religious observance still bites today ...

Understanding the surprising mechanism behind apathy can help unlock scientific ways to boost your motivation ...

As the first part of his acclaimed Blinding trilogy is released in the UK, the novelist talks about communism, Vladimir Nabokov - and those Nobel rumours ...

Democracy, birds and hangover cures - famous fans put their questions to the visionary author ...

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he 'gets nothing in the way of royalties', show authors at their most vulnerable ...