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This series manages to be both captivating and frighteningly real

A 12-year-old girl is obliged to care for her younger siblings in this powerful novel about rural destitution on the edge of Europe

Servants of Knowledge and Public Resource partner to digitise Motilal Banarsidass' out-of-copyright books. Agreement to be announced at Bangalore Lit Fest. Carl Malamud and H L Omshivaprakash co-founded Servants of Knowledge, to create open access digital library of books, speeches, magazines, newspapers, audio, films in 15 languages. 15 lakh pages…

Michael Rosen returns with an adventurous French hound, while BBC sport presenter Damian Johnson offers inspiring football stories. Plus, a lion comes to tea and stays

The Manchester-born author was a frustrated composer who often wrote about music. Now his previously unknown work for strings will find an audience

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, in a year full of family sagas, is surely the standout volume, but the panel may just opt for Sarah Bernstein’s ‘spectrally vague brainteaser’

Dazzling lyrical snapshots recall the dreamlike style of Fugitive Pieces in the poet’s third novel, a fluid examination of history, memory and generational trauma

Films, shows and a new museum seek to capture the charisma of the great soprano

Prince William has reportedly made the fact very clear...

A new book on Watford’s glory years under Elton John and Graham Taylor illustrates how football has become poorer as it has become vastly wealthy

He said the ‘project’ had been on his mind for quite some time, and had found the fifth edition of the Arunachal Literature Festival (ALS) the right occasion to announce it.