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Woodward’s latest page turner takes you inside the room – but can he still claim to be an impartial fly on the wall?

"Can't argue with a royal pardon."

The hotly anticipated second series of the late Hilary Mantell’s Wolf Hall trilogy has finally hit our screens, nearly ten years after the first. The six episodes adapt the trilogy’s last book, The Mirror and the Light, and cover the years from the execution of Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne…

Axel Scheffler says he hopes Wuschel auf der Erde will encourage more children to learn his first language

Apple TV+'s "Silo" Season 2 launches on Nov. 15 and we've got everything you need to catch up with Season 1.

Other lives: Doctor and writer who produced books on medical care for developing countries

As the stage version of his take on Great Expectations opens in Adelaide, the novelist looks back at a right royal kerfuffle – and a memorable encounter with a London cabby

Novelist Louisa Young will write the sixth, seventh and eighth books in a move that ‘will thrill existing readers’

The singer-songwriter’s atmospheric memoir reveals many musical adventures and doesn’t shy away from exploring her challenging times

The Outsider by Jane Casey; White City by Dominic Nolan; The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz; The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood; Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi

3/5 An empathetic reckoning with the end of the world leaves you clinging to dance and music