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Pelicot writes of 'brain stopping working' when police told her of crimes of man she shared her life with for 50 years ...

Sixteen authors - including Lea Ypi, Lyse Doucet and Barbara Demick - are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes ...

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from a Facebook exposé to a globetrotting family saga ...

An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city - including the author's father - survived fascism ...

At a time when Black military history is being rewritten under Trump officials, new book The War Within a War provides a vital reminder ...

An ambitious chronicle of the fight for freedom by enslaved Africans spans four centuries of escapes and uprisings in the Americas ...

A plot to blow up St Paul's Cathedral is seen through the lens of family tragedy ...

Former nanny Scarlett Pavlovich filed suit in three US states alleging author assaulted her in New Zealand in 2022 ...

The radical young poet's backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism ...

Tensions simmer when a struggling artist joins her wealthy friends for a hen week on an exotic Greek island ...