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A fading rock star and once-famous actor enjoy a reclusive life in an old Scottish manor – until his ex and daughter come to visit

Dee Snider has been a heavy metal singer, a Broadway actor, a radio DJ, and a TV voice-over artist

Prolific writer Salman Rushdie has been awarded the 2023 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for "his indomitable spirit, for his affirmation of life and for enriching our world with his love of storytelling." The announcement was made on June 19, the day when Rushdie turned 76.

The American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died on 13 June aged 89, was a novelist “utterly wedded to the apocalyptic sublime”, said Rob Doyle in The Guardian. Over a career that produced 12 novels and two plays – and spawned some excellent film adaptations, notably the Coen brothers’ “No Country…

In his second novel, set in a fictional Caribbean country, the British Ghanian author pays homage to the staying power of migrant communities

Knowing how to highlight text and make notes on your Kindle edges the digital device even closer to a physical book

Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process

Wall is the third short novel Jen Craig has published over the past 13 years.

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