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In this episode we take a look at life, war and politics in Ukraine, through the eyes of its most celebrated writer. Andrey Kurkov rose to international fame with "Death and the Penguin" more than 20 years ago, but he has many other novels to his name, including "The Silver…

Nine of the Top 10 bestsellers in Korea’s largest bookstore chain are works by Han with her win being honoured by politicians, authors, readers and the entire country

From mayoral meetings with Lily Allen to bathroom trips with Leonardo DiCaprio, Boris Johnson has had his fair share of odd celebrity run-ins. Claudia Cockerell on the strangest ones to grace the pages of Unleashed, his new book

After an English academic at Oxford complained about students’ attention spans, we get experts’ tips on enjoying the written word

There is something cheering about a world in which we can argue about fish knives. Anne Glenconner, once lady in waiting to Princess Margaret, raised the issue this week at the Cheltenham Literary Festival where she was promoting her book on picnics. She recalled having lunch with Camilla and her…

The Scottish author and poet is a warm, wry companion in an autobiographical collection of poems, written in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths

The horror author on Dr Seuss, the radicalism of Earl Thompson, and the perfect whodunnit

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local publishers soared following her historic Nobel Prize win.

From Himmler to herring, a Swedish journalist offers unexpected angles on the 70s supergroup

Alfonso Cuarón’s new drama about a wife whose secrets are exposed looks beautiful. Sadly, it’s also slow, turgid and – despite stars like Kevin Kline – so bad it needs to be pureed into mush

This insipid, humourless adaptation of CJ Skuse’s blackly comic Sweetpea books has been stripped of everything good. It seems to drag on forever