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Working in a bookshop while failing to write a novel, the narrator admits to being a 'living cliche' in this bitter black comedy ...

The anthropologist and father of New York's mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan history ...

In the fourth volume of the occult Morning Star cycle, a Faustian pact haunts a misanthropic artist who finds miraculous success ...

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Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA ...

King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage ...

The actor won best performance for BBC drama Gatsby in Harlem at the inaugural British Audio awards, while Nicola Coughlan's narration of Juno Dawson's Queen B clinched best sci-fi audiobook ...

The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation ...

The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint ...

There's no competition ...