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In this lurid, big-boned, often brilliant book about a sculptor and a true-crime documentary, state-of-the-nation commentary and gruesome chills combine ...

The author of historical novel Taiwan Travelogue, and its translator Lin King, discuss the threat from Beijing, LGBTQ+ rights and the island's culinary delicacies ...

This heartfelt story of attraction and friendship, shortlisted for the Women's prize for fiction, is sensitively read by Dan Bottomley ...

This vivid story of a Caribbean childhood in 1960s Bradford does not stint on accounts of poverty and systemic abuse, yet is pungent with wit and colour ...

Packed with gossip and incident, this book is also a fascinating study in the gestation of genius ...

What would Trump think of Gilgamesh? And why are 19th-century classics so popular among young people? Writers on why we need the novel more than ever ...

A professor of psychobiology argues that art - from painting to theatre - has a measurable impact on our health ...

A biography of the creative force behind Mrs Merton and The Royle Family focuses on the stories behind her work ...

What makes this love story fresh is the precise attention to the contemporary environment: the way characters live both in and out of the physical world ...

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shung-z, translated by Lin King, pulled off an 'incredible double feat' in succeeding as 'both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel'