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The conclave that begins in Vatican City on Wednesday is the process of electing the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. Shrouded in mystery, with all those involved sworn to secrecy on threat of ex-communication, what do we know about what goes on behind the sealed doors of…

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The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans

A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut

INTERVIEW: The author of ‘Animals’ and ‘Adults’ talks to Helen Coffey about drugs, booze and oblivion, creating characters ‘that are fun to be around’ and why sibling relationships can be the most complicated of our lives

Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to happen.