Tag: Books

‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fre...

There are some advantages to being an older debutant, including knowing what it’...

Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller review – a blend of ...

In this lurid, big-boned, often brilliant book about a sculptor and a true-crime...

‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of s...

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that ...

Why everyone should read the brilliant Douglas Adams no...

The author’s fourth novel in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series is a ma...

From Life Itself by Suzy Hansen review – Turkey in the ...

This portrait of everyday life in an Istanbul neighbourhood buffeted by change h...

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