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When General de Gaulle arrived in Paris on 25 August, 1944 to mark the French capital’s liberation from Nazi occupation, his official reporter was by his side to document the historic moment. That reporter was France's first female WWII correspondent, but her name was lost to history – until a…

A pair of boys try to survive the horrors of a US reform school during the segregated 60s in this Pulitzer-winning novel

THE COUNTDOWN: Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs

A BEST-SELLING novel by one of Scotland’s greatest living novelists is to be brought to life on stage early in the New Year.

The author, whose latest gothic novel is inspired by his lifelong love of theatre, on his journey from stage to page – and why his house in Austin is home to a 4ft doll of Madame Tussaud

A writer takes his elderly mother on a road trip through the Swiss Alps in an attempt to break with his privileged family’s dysfunctional past

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From Ballet Shoes to Wicked, stories of female empowerment and friendship are triumphing on stage and screen

The Mexican journalist revealed that she has won a lawsuit filed against her by the Mexican actress Ninel Conde for defamation.

A Woman of Substance on Channel 4, starring Brenda Blethyn and Jessica Reynolds, is an epic saga based on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s famous novel.

In a 1951 letter to the publisher Milton Waldman, J.R.R. Tolkien described his youthful ambition to create a cycle of connected legends, some of which would be tales told in full and others that would exist merely as scraps and fragments.