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Founder of London restaurants and award-winning author, who was at forefront of ‘small plates’ movement, died after short illness

Historian whose chronicles of 14th-century Montaillou focused on laypeople rather than leaders

Do you have a renewed interest in The Hunger Games following The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes release? Here's how to buy the novel and OG movies this Black Friday.

The author and critic, who died last week aged 87, left behind a treasure trove of writings – sensuous, erudite, experimental and in love with literature. Here are some good places to begin

Extracts from book by Omid Scobie claim Harry is hopeful of reviving relationship with estranged family

Perhaps he was inspired by Alan Garner who, at 88, last year became the oldest ever person to be nominated for the Booker Prize. Maybe as “a life-long reader of thrillers” he thought, as most life-long readers of thrillers do at some point, that thrillers quite often seem formulaic and…

Who's in the A Nearly Normal Family cast? Find out who stars in the Netflix adaptation of M. T. Edvardsson's gripping family drama.

Distressed about the lack of respect being given to Adivasis in Manipur, Adivasi writer Jacinta Kerketta, refused an award from the India Today group for her work.

Show dedicated to the prolific children’s and young adult novelist includes 82 rejection letters alongside her children’s laureate medal

Grief and trauma can be generational, says the poet and human rights lawyer, but gifts can be generational too

Described as ‘a remarkable piece of history’, the copy of Isaac D’Israeli’s essays collection is one of 20 books the author is known to have owned, and features her own underlinings and annotations