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Children’s publishing is awash with celebrity authors. So when Frank Cottrell-Boyce was named BookTrust’s Children’s Laureate, some fellow writers may not have been wholly delighted. After all, Cottrell-Boyce is better known by many for his screenwriting work. He has written successful screenplays for a roster of films, including Millions (2004),…

Curandera by Irenosen Okojie; The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman; The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer; Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Looking for a great read to take on holiday with you? We had our experts review some of the hottest books of 2024. From love stories to tales of murders and food, there’s something for every fiction lover.

From Boy Parts to Brainwyrms, novels by female writers are carving out a new subgenre – but is it a cathartic feminist statement or an internalised version of the misogyny it seeks to subvert?

The writer on how a creepy, psychological thriller blew her 13-year old mind, her early outrage at unreliable narrators and taking comfort in Saki

A celebration of the gifts and talents of autistic people refutes the idea that autism and empathy cannot coexist

Many parents assign 'good cop bad cop' roles when it comes to parenting, but it may have a knock on effect in your relationship

The follow-up to Fleishman Is in Trouble explores the fallout from a kidnapping in a rich American family

Anthony Hopkins is the emperor in an epic, gratuitous tale of the last days of Rome, while Natalie Portman stars in a beautiful, gritty noir about a woman on the hunt for a missing girl in the 1960s

Who needs Winds of Winter?

The publisher of his most recent novel said it was ‘deeply disturbed’ by the allegations and decided to ‘immediately suspend all promotion and sales’ of his books