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Author turns her novelist’s eye to her own grandmother, a smart and ambitious woman who became distant and demanding after a lifetime of disappointment

William Epps’s 1799 book of scorecards from ‘the grand matches’, formerly owned by commentator John Arlott, has been saved for the nation

Steve Braunias describes the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list at Matariki Weekend

‘I worry not for my generation... I worry for young people’ she said

Prince Harry recalls noticing one major difference between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle

Hutchinson's "testimony transfixed and stunned the nation," the publisher says.

In a film that’s “meant to feel like a languorous conversation with a friend”, director Pushan Kripalani goes behind four decades of the Kolkata publishing house

Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama "Afire," has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It's a scowl that rarely leaves your memory, since it so rarely leaves his features: a full-lipped mouth that hangs contemptuously half-open; eyes that glare…

Oxfordshire arts festival is partnering with The Independent for a nine-day event that features appearances from actors, writers, illustrators, musicians, poets, comedians and more

The Grande Matriarch of Malabar, authored by Sajita Nair, narrates the story of Dakshayani, a strong-willed woman and her attachment to her ancestral home

This raw, powerful novel is based on the Norwegian woman whose case has been notorious for more than a century