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They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama - without the infamous friends ...

Along with other icons of African writing, Ngg taught generations how to decolonise literature, language and the mind ...

Awakened by Laura Elliott; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab; Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang; Esperance by Adam Oyebanji; The Quiet by Barnaby Martin ...

Like bar-hopping, but for browsing books: this trend, popularised on TikTok, makes for a great day out - and can help you discover unique literary spots ...

An immensely readable dive into the 'predictive processing' hypothesis, our best guess as to how the mind really works ...

Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke's ' beautiful and compassionate' The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transplant seen from all sides ...

The civil war transforms a young trainee doctor's life as she copes with her feelings for a Tamil Tiger in last year's Women's prizewinning novel ...

Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novel ...

Stories within stories give fascinating depth to the prize-winning author's third novel, about a woman's return to her family home in the west of Ireland ...

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from moving memoirs to sequels of beloved novels ...