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A young pregnant woman is assailed by dark visions of sisterhood in a novel splicing eco-horror, cosmic distress and ideas of the monstrous feminine ...

A landmark new account of the 1979 revolution sets current events in context ...

Publish and be damned ...

We tend to think of intelligence like height - and imagine ourselves being overtaken. That misses the point ...

Bringing Manchester's Curry Mile to vibrant life, the #Merky prize-winning author's cross-genre work focuses on the lives and language of young British men. He discusses identity and inspiration ...

Her philosophical approach to therapy has become a global phenomenon, and inspired a new book. Could a session with her change Sophie McBain's life?

From 1980s Cincinnati into the interstellar darkness, the stories of four women interconnect across the centuries in a gentle hymn to found families ...

Yiewsley by Daljit Nagra; Mer de Glace by Magorzata Lebda; The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith; Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar; Dark Night by St John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland ...

The American author on the magic of Yasunari Kawabata, the hidden layers of Henry James and coming late to the genius of Muriel Spark ...

The author reads her account of her time as a senior executive at Facebook with a mixture of dark humour and astonishment at the working culture in which she finds herself ...