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It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we’d spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics. My father, an Indian, was also looking for something in Buddhist and Taoist texts that would…

Men In Love is a “sonic companion” to his new sequel to Trainspotting

In the year in which the groundbreaking activist would have turned 100, a new book looks at the enduring impact of his words and how they resonate today

Ten techniques for creating illustrations that carry emotion.

Judges for The Orwell Prize said they were “highly impressed by David’s dedicated commitment and the well-researched focus on timely challenges”

This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild ride

Tests were carried out on the Harvard Law School Library document and it was confirmed to be an original issue of the Magna Carta from 1300.

A former court clerk who helped with the murder trial that led to the conviction of once-powerful South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been arrested

Celebrated British-Indian author Salman Rushdie will no longer deliver the commencement address at Claremont McKenna College.

Daré accepted the £10,000 prize for her latest novel, And So I Roar, the follow-up to her bestselling debut The Girl with the Louding Voice

Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.