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Jay Feinman’s book that exposes ways insurance companies avoid paying claims hit No 2 on Amazon’s nonfiction list

In the early 1950s, William Burroughs – drug addict, homosexual and pioneering writer of what would come to be called the Beat generation – found himself in Mexico City. On the run after accidentally shooting his wife, Joan, during a drunken game of William Tell, Burroughs relished the freedom granted…

Peacock’s 'The Day of the Jackal' reboot may get bogged down in minutiae, but it’s still a worthwhile slow burn.

One of the greatest books at all time gets an equally ambitious streaming adaptation.

A photographer sets out to make a ‘personal geography’ of his native Germany in this poetic tale of loss and belonging

A whimsical new exhibition assembles a range of books that don’t exist, from Byron’s destroyed memoirs to Shakespeare’s lost play

A collection of articles, talks, letters and unpublished writing fills important gaps in the great naturalist’s life story

This 16-part series does justice to Gabriel García Márquez’s magical-realist masterwork – although the novel’s sexual politics have aged badly

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel, weaves superstition, sex and the surreal into an unparallelled Spanish-language epic. Helen Coffey assesses whether a new Netflix show can possibly do justice to the original

Rory Stewart’s memoir Politics On The Edge topped the biography category.

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