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The New Yorker writer explores what it takes to get good at something, from baking and boxing to mastering his own mind

Possum Magic has turned 40 — but its audience remains as young as ever, and author Mem Fox maintains that, notwithstanding changes to Roald Dahl's work, she would not change a single word.

The duchess married into the royal family in 1986 before later divorcing the Duke of York

The rebranding of critical race theory has led to the removal of books about conventional civil rights figures.

It's the latest book from Samantha Tidy, also the author of now-classic Our Bush Capital.

Editorial: With stressed families less likely to have time and money to spare for books, young readers are losing out. It’s time to boost school libraries

The King apparently felt some of Harry's comments towards Camilla in his book were 'the ultimate act of disrespect'

Adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ("The Disaster Artist") from the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, "Daisy Jones & The Six" is a soap opera wrapped inside a period backstage musical. Set largely in the 1970s, the novel is rendered as an oral history, the story of the…

Roald Dahl and the Big Fat Fuss by Madison Hamill: Is changing offensive language in classic texts ever justified?

Suicide is an act so shocking and violent that it undoes not only sensation, memory and feeling, but meaning. Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong describes how it unpicks even the connective tissue of language.

Dr Marieke Bigg’s new book on the gender health gap is inspired by her own experiences of medical inequality, she explains to Claire Cohen