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This week’s events make me wonder how long I can keep stalling. Plus, Keir Starmer’s Jason Bourne moment

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

If you would like to read what Hilary Mantel made of Robocop, then I have the book for you. But if you’re looking for a memoir, as you might expect given the title, then you are out of luck. This is a collection of essays, lectures and journalism (Mantel spent…

Meet princess Kundhavai who learns to express her emotions better with help from her aunt in Emmozhi Publications' picture book Thottachiningi Ilavarasi

The Scottish author on laughing out loud at Catch-22, being inspired by Martin Amis and the joy of Graeme Johnston’s Kerby

Coetzee’s purist approach to storytelling strikes a chord in this novella and five tales

From essays and tour books to those that convey “the real flavour of cricket”, this selection of books on cricket is for the die-hard fan

Sudipta Biswas's book, ‘Tulsidas Balaram: The Boy, The Hero, The Tormented Footballer’, is a tribute to a distinguished forward, who was an integral part of India's golden era of football. It captures the world of football through interviews, research and anecdotes, and highlights the heartbreaking episode of Balaram not being…

A buyer from Argentina has paid $36,000 for a manuscript of works, including seven unpublished stories, by legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar at an auction in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo

The daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore has admitted her family kept profits from three books he had written.