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From Willoughby Chase to Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken's tales of plucky orphans surviving in industrial Britain are a keystone of children's literature ...

From Maigret to Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, authors choose the whodunnits they love to hunker down with at this time of year ...

Hard not to fold ...

The Nobel prize winner pushes at the veil between this world and the next in the immersive tale of a solitary fisherman ...

The Booksellers Association spoke to staff who also highlighted James by Percival Everett, and everything from Chris Hoy's autobiography to a book about fishing by a dog ...

What is Bertie Wooster's middle name and in which novel did James Bond get married? Test your knowledge with questions by William Boyd, David Baddiel, Sara Collins, Tom Holland, Ali Smith and more ...

Ambika Mod, Thandiwe Newton and Mackenzie Crook are among the lineup in this cinematic telling of Dickens's classic ...

The Booker-winning novelist on her teenage crush on Winston Graham's character, the beauty of CS Lewis and how Hermann Hesse changed her life ...

From the devilish Krampus legend to a spot of disembowelment, the author takes us on a scary romp through Europe's most disturbing festive folklore ...

A widower sets out to understand his wife's death in this tale of memory, trauma and German reunification, from the author of The Reader ...