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Nearly a quarter of people between the ages of 16 and 24 have never been regular readers

A hair-raising gameworld adventure, a dystopian thriller set in Edinburgh and a magical tale involving book jumping are among this month’s highlights

Published to accompany a new exhibition at Paris’ Centre Pompidou, ‘Comics 1964-2024’ is a must for neophytes and aficionados of the graphic novel

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

THE Scottish public are being called on to nominate their Scots language heroes ahead of a national awards ceremony.

These contracts provide a clear framework for asset management and protection and are especially useful if you get married later in life.

Katori Hall brings nuance and passion to this story of four queer black men in Tennessee, though it won’t win any awards for brevity

In the fourth novel by the award-winning author of The Bass Rock, Wyld weaves a cleverly fragmented story of an Australian woman whose traumatic past casts a long shadow on the present

The Marx Brothers collaborator and New Yorker writer returns to the dime store novels and schlocky movies of his teens – and nails American culture