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Red, White and Royal Blue is one of the great LGBTQ+ books that I have read, and here are some others.

Myths and legends geek Dan Jones' book - Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend - features characters including god Achilles, Wonder Woman, and Barbie's Ken doll

From cosy crime to queer romance, Francesca Brown looks at the literary trends dominating the charts, and filling our shelves

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

Have teenagers taken control of publishing? With some authors notching up a billion views, we look at how TikTok is electrifying the world of books – creating bestsellers, reviving classics and rescuing neglected genres

‘If she would have said no, I wouldn’t have gone’

The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe