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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 ...

Gwen's talent vastly outshone her brother's - but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography ...

Click, rustle, thud ...

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women's prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writers ...

One year on, Jonathan Haidt talks about the way his book changed the global conversation around children and digital devices - and explains how he handles his own teenagers ...

Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers ...

Ahead of Refugee Week, we round up entertaining stories, poems and nonfiction to help children of all ages learn about refugees and gain understanding ...

Southernmost: Sonnets by Leo Boix; An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello; Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon; Goonie by Michael Mullen; The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed ...

The author on Marxist revelations, returning to Don DeLillo and reading all of Elizabeth Taylor ...

This portrait of German film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis has the darkness and ambiguity of a modern Grimms' fairytale ...