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The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings

Dark sexual secrets and lies drive an ingenious and wickedly funny tale of meltdown on a Greek honeymoon

The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’

The actress has been dealing with an unspecified health issue for nearly a month.

I used to hold on to books as if they were cash, before realizing that all books are not created equally

Bestselling author of the 1960 novel The L-Shaped Room and the children’s classic The Indian in the Cupboard

New director Jenny Niven calls controversy over lead sponsor Baillie Gifford’s fossil fuel links ‘the nature of the beast’, but activists are still calling for authors to boycott the event

Few things in life are as daunting as the doorstop novel that comes complete with a glossary of the characters featured within. Over the 650 pages of Andrew O’Hagan’s latest, it warns us, we will have 59 different people to keep track of, ranging from gang members and drill rappers…

Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind

Lord Of The Flies, based on the classic William Golding novel, is coming to BBC1 and Stan.