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This year's fiction contenders also include Karen Russell, Megha Majumdar and Ethan Rutherford ...

A journalist uses family and political history to paint a portrait of a country in turmoil through its women ...

Ten poets, including Tom Paulin and Sarah Howe, appear on the shortlist for the £25,000 award, which judges described as offering 'something for everyone'

This incandescent novel takes in lockdown, the devil, bad investments, erotic thrills and the deadly fire on the Scandinavian Star ferry ...

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?

Co-written with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, The Mushroom Tapes is inspired by their experience attending the headline-grabbing trial earlier this year ...

The writer was an astute observer of English class - and a champion of complicated female heroines ...

The author of 18 'bonkbuster' novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall ...

The 17th-century 'server at table' to Charles I puts a wry spin on courtly wooing ...

Four novellas about damaged people weighed down by the crimes they have suffered draw you efficiently in, but the cumulative effect is numbing ...