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From handbags to drug gangs to central banks - one of Britain's finest investigative reporters reveals the surprising links in a global chain of crime ...

Caring canines; daring donuts; a golden monkey; a boy from another planet; a dark take on Little Women and more ...

The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really matters ...

Feigel uses her own experience as a starting point to examine the past, present and future of separation ...

The plight of a reluctant medieval king is glimpsed through scattered pieces of the past, in an ingenious novel that asks how much we can really know about history ...

Dark obsessions drive this debut about the golden era of magazines - but its vile and hilarious heroine is not someone you want to spend so much time with ...

The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign - one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis ...

China isn't the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist ...

Author discusses changes made to Lindsay Gordon novels from 80s and 90s to prepare for their rerelease ...

Alex Jennings's performance hums with buried rage in Christopher Isherwood's landmark exploration of grief ...