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Candice Carty-Williams’ show has its flaws, but it really excels in its moments of gentle intimacy

As a child I was a keen reader of adventure books, but I could never have imagined then that I’d write one, let alone be the central character.

Writers Andrew O’Hagan, Sarah Perry and more pay tribute to the celebrated Scottish poet, novelist and memoirist, who died last week aged 69

The Hay Festival finished last night. The previous week it was blackmailed into ditching one of its sponsors, the wealth management group Baillie Gifford. A climate divestment activist group, Fossil Free Books, asked writers attending Hay to de-platform themselves in protest at Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship, because it invests two per…

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists

Younger brother of late Princess Diana speaks at Hay Festival about memoir A Very Private School

This austere reflection on lost friendships was written in the poet’s later years as he fought opium addiction

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The former best friend of convicted fraudster Inigo Philbrick turns the exciting world of art into a series of gauche boasts in this story of their career as dealers

Pitch-dark cynicism meets a spooky coming-of-age story in these promising debuts by two ‘alt lit’ proteges