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A journalist tells the improbable tale of a British diplomat who worked to free Ireland - and paid the ultimate price ...

Ranging from quantum mechanics to eating disorders to the nature of fiction, this is a breathtaking interrogation of family, connection and memory ...

The British pop star will lead the 2026 London literature festival in collaboration with her Service95 book club, as part of the Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary celebrations ...

The fortunes of a single family are entwined with the turmoil of the 20th century in this ambitious, gothic-inflected debut ...

A deep dive into the horror novelist's archives reveals pedantry, penny-pinching, and a total redraft of Carrie ...

As her dark debut about a tradwife who wakes up in the past is made into a film by Anne Hathaway, the novelist explores the sinister truth behind the barefoot influencers ...

The latest research suggests there's far more to good fortune than mere accident ...

As a child, Brown was underestimated, infantilised and dismissed by specialists and teachers. Now 28, he has written an acclaimed debut novel set in an adult day care centre that gives people like him a voice ...

Musical inspiration from Corinne Bailey Rae; danger in a magical academy; the adventures of an otter pup; a YA queer gothic fantasy, and more ...

The author on the Steinbeck novel that moved him to tears, how becoming a father inspired him to reread Marilynne Robinson, and the culinary comforts of James M Cain ...