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Other lives: Children’s book illustrator who also produced work for magazines and the fashion designer Mary Quant

A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a cultural domain that has long enjoyed a special latitude in…

South Dakota governor’s account of family dog Cricket killing neighbor’s chickens may be an offence, according to state law

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The Max adaptation of John Green’s 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plot

Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries

The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’

After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion.

The Essex Serpent author’s fourth novel, about a newspaper columnist who lives a double life, mixes themes of faith and physics to powerful effect