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Longstanding disagreements about content in school libraries often focus this year on books with LGBTQ themes

Royal commentator Tom Quinn reckons a "bit of an argument" is going on behind the scenes over exactly what role Prince George will play as anything too major could be too much for the youngster.

Kanan Makiya, Iraqi architect and author of the “Republic of Fear” (1989), a best-selling book after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, described the Baathist regime in Iraq as “exceptional” in terms of totalitarian and authoritarian rule in the world. Overthrowing Saddam’s regime in Iraq was a matter of “morality, not…

You won't be able to pu these down.

Landlords ‘never seem to run out of other people’s money’ says the writer

‘Tens of thousands’ of people on security services’ radar could pose a threat, Met chief says

I’d been endlessly geed up about the ‘other Belfast novelist’, as if we were obliged to be enemies. I wasn’t having it, says writer Rachel Connolly

This four-part journey through life under lockdown is filled with beautiful writing but the ubiquity of the pandemic experience proves hard to ignore

Former French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, who recently published a remarkable book entitled "The Others Don't Think Like Us," experienced the US invasion of Iraq "first hand." Gourdault-Montagne served as the diplomatic adviser to late French President Jacques Chirac and his representative at the G7 and G20 in the summer of…

The 70-year-old spends his days writing novels and doesn't have electricity, mains water or central heating.