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Novel with author China Miéville thrills everyone from ardent followers to big publishers

Queen Camilla kicked off the New Year with an intriguing choice for one of her projects and it's seen her dubbed a 'tremendous sport'

About a quarter of the way into Where We Come From, music journalist Aniefok Ekpoudom’s debut book, the text suddenly contracts to a thin strip of staccato sentences — a stark column of internal dialogue that is more like something you’d find in a chapbook of poetry. Deployed to visually…

Don’t Look Left is culture minister Atef Abu Saif’s ‘shockingly graphic’ day-by-day account of life in Gaza since the 7 October attacks

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THE National Library of Scotland has bought the final tranche of archive material by renowned Scottish author Alasdair Gray ...

Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley; The Glass Woman by Alice McIlroy; The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson; The Knowing by Emma Hinds; Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf

The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter

With a new book out, Jaya Jaitly on why graphic design study in India needs an overhaul and how public spaces can do better than ‘kindergarten wall art’

This sly emotional thriller from the author of The Whale Tattoo explores the discord between the individual and the world

"She had expected a proposal."