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A SCOTTISH writer and cartoonist has launched a crowdfunder in a bid to raise money for the publication of his satirical novel on the 2008 global…

The mezcal’s on hand for this strange, song-filled journey into the land of the dead

Extremophile by Ian Green; Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan; Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova; The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey; Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts

Actor Lydia Leonard and novelist Anne Enright are among the narrators of the Wolf Hall author’s engaging essays on Madonna, Jane Austen and Princess Diana

Eline Arbo’s production of The Years at London’s Almeida Theatre is a rare triumph. First adapted into Dutch and premiered in Amsterdam in 2022, the play breathes theatrical life into the Nobel-winning writer Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece of the same name, delineating a composite portrait of a woman and a culture…

This is a beautifully observed portrait of five young men growing up on the edge of Dublin’s underworld

Steamy books are flying off the shelves; could women’s frustrated libidos be the answer, asks Helen Coffey

Thirteen popular books have been banned from all public schools in Utah in the first wave of bans expected under a new law that prohibits books when at least three of the state’s 41 school district boards claim they contain pornographic or indecent material

"It wobbled him... There’s no doubt about that."