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Unafraid to confront messy contradictions, a second memoir from the author of Your Voice in My Head covers the end of her marriage and ‘tectonic shift’ from LA to north London

An expanded reissue of the author’s 1942 novel about a Red Army unit encircled by German forces is overtly polemical but also vividly written

A photo of a book that appeared next to Al Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb during his return flight from a European country, renewed on Sunday a debate over the concept of enlightenment among some of his supporters in Egypt. The debate started when Dr. Khaled Montaser posted on his Twitter…

‘The Don’ explains how he went from gang fights to book deals.

My phone pings and it’s a message from my brother. Do we have an old white dress my niece could borrow for a Book Week costume for school?

The Game of Thrones ending left plenty cold, but HBO is hoping House of the Dragon will warm everyone up to Westeros again. Here's what you need to know.

The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, as well as their lawyers and advisors, have not seen any part of the manuscript and don't even know when the book will be published

Colson Whitehead on a heist gone wrong; a revisionary study of the footballing Charltons; and Donal Wilson’s latest fictional vignette of small-town Ireland

The author and playwright’s latest novel incisively captures the search for meaning in uncertain times

In romance lit as everywhere else, race matters. These narratives are becoming more diverse, nuanced and vulnerable

Wit and wisdom are constant delights in the film-maker and writer’s second short story collection, as she expertly picks apart the confusions of intimacy