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The US author’s masterly portrait of a divorced couple brought together by their daughter’s wedding is beautifully observed

In the late 1990s, Mischa Haller began taking pictures of British nightlife during the hours after the clubs had shut – from drunken revellers scoffing pizza to ravers blissed out on the beach

Sir Keir Starmer has denied breaking lockdown rules after it emerged he had met a voice coach during the winter of 2020.

Debonair publisher known for his generous book advances whose stable of writers included Peter Ackroyd and Rose Tremain

The Prime Minister said ‘of course’ he did not breach restrictions in place during the coronavirus pandemic.

José Lourenço’s film adaptation of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther opens with a line on screen stating it is “based on the smash hit 1774 novel of tragic romance”. Set in contemporary Canada, it revolves around Werther (Douglas Booth), who falls tragically…

The subgenre helped increase the market share by 41.3% last year aided by bestseller Fourth Wing from Rebecca Yarros while food and drink topped nonfiction sales

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Cassandra burning her sister, Jane Austen's letters, has been avidly discussed among historians and is now dramatised in a BBC series