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Annual survey of young people's reading habits which began two decades ago shows its lowest-ever result, most pronounced among boys aged 11 to 16 ...

Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes ...

She was Michael Gove's wife and Samantha Cameron's best friend. But then Brexit happened ...

Brazilian tribal leader among other guests at event with theme of repair, along with Ally McCoist and Nicola Sturgeon ...

A philosopher challenges us to forget about ourselves in this powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishism ...

In the first novel from the author of We Move, descendants of a proscribed intercaste marriage are connected across continents and centuries ...

Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal ...

Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle's France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers ...

A statue of the mythological father of poetry becomes an image of the declining authority of the art form ...

Life is turned upside-down by a new arrival, in this weird and charming tale of nature and family - with a guest appearance from the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson ...