Tag: Books

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlike...

Writer looked to topics such as computer engineering and life in a nursing home ...

Len Deighton, author who reinvented the spy thriller wi...

‘The poet of the spy novel’, he transformed a flashy, tuxedo-clad genre into som...

Foul food and flagrant corruption: A look behind the Ir...

In 1989 Tony Scotland journeyed through Soviet Eastern Europe. Its governments –...

Marmalade sandwich, ma’am? Paddington meets the current...

Television bear is star performer as Camilla honours young writers at Windsor fi...

Deborah Masson: From Sheddocksley mobile library to top...

The Aberdeen author has always loved writing and combined motherhood with litera...

‘Last year I read 137 books’: could setting targets hel...

BookTok influencer Jack Edwards motivates himself with reading goals – and he’s ...

Susie Dent’s tips and tricks to add muscle to a child’s...

Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie ...

Allan Massie, outstanding Scottish novelist, critic and...

Ensconced in the Borders, Massie had a limitless capacity for work, his non-fict...

English author Anne Brontë is born

17 January 1820

Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great...

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have fore...

From K-pop and The Traitors to Dune and the return of M...

From K-pop and The Traitors to Dune and the return of Madge: your A-Z of the big...

I love books. This is why I just binned thousands

The UK publishes evermore books each year, as readerships dwindle – it’s time we...

How Islamic science and culture helped make Europe great

Author Tharik Hussain’s travels around the Mediterranean revealed how Islamic cu...

Murder, dictators and drugs: You have to read this wild...

For centuries, the country was ‘the world’s greatest melting pot’. Today, it sta...