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A journey through a visionary landscape, exceptionally bright in icy weather, conjures a surreal semi-mythical world ...

The Welsh author vividly captures the solitude, hard labour, dramas and dangers of rural life ...

Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the age ...

with bells on ...

From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands ...

Whether it's through TikTok buzz, celebrity endorsements or good old-fashioned word of mouth, some titles enjoy a second, more powerful, life. But what unites them - and is there a formula for this type of success?

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift ...

Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds; Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle; All Tomorrows by CM Kosemen; The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson; The Witching Hour by various authors ...

Her novels, including A Village Affair and Other People's Children, drew on what Fay Weldon called a 'gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times'

The author on getting hooked on Flann O'Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down ...