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The historian turns Liz Truss’s 49-day tenure into a textbook on bad government, writes former Conservative MP Dominic GrieveI have to start this review by d […]

The Rizzle Kicks star explores the fallout from fame in this candid portrait of the artist as a struggling young manJordan Stephens’ energetic and unguarded memoir < […]

Bookloop will allow customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the online retailer’s website, with accumulated royalties being distributed to authorsA b […]

The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living […]

The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives fresh legs to the Minotaur, Actaeon, his hounds and moreThe human characters in Mark […]

The two authors, who became friends during lockdown, discuss their experiences in the UK publishing industry, the day job, and books they loveWhen Eliza Clark’s d […]

The comedian’s flights of fancy are again to the fore in this sequel to his award-winning crime caper, but sadly, momentum and intrigue are a little lackingIn 2 […]

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our e […]

Longlisted for this year’s Booker prize, Kushner’s cleverly paced tale of espionage, narrated by a ‘wild and boastful’ agent provocateur, juggles a killer plot wi […]

The ‘Shy Creatures’ author on what she learnt from Iris Murdoch, the best book she’s read this year, and the bookshop everyone should go to…

From terrifying guests with invitations to ‘informal’ lunches to her relationship with the first female prime minister – Craig Brown looks for the woman behind the […]

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘First Job’ by Bryony Littlefair from her debut collection ‘Escape Room’.
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The author on reading Emily Brontë as a teenager, becoming consumed by the Patrick Melrose novels, and the magic of listening to the Midnight’s Children au […]

These exceptional tales explore the sweet, infuriating agony of being overwhelmed by passion and desireTo yearn is to feel the pain and pleasure of being alive all […]

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year and is even more impressive than his second novel Skippy Dies which I read last year. It […]

Matt Parker (full-time semi-famous maths person) recently made a video about a surprising statistic about bingo. To go with the video, he commissioned a large set […]

From the return of Skandar and Bunny vs Monkey to wintry romance and enchanting picture books, discover what treats October has in store.

A ‘blueprint’ for bringing dictators down that could equally function as a Machiavellian manual for staying in powerJust when I thought I was out, they pull me bac […]

During the dawn of the First World War, HH Asquith sent more than 700 letters to an aristocratic young woman almost half his age – but did the Liberal PM actually h […]