Marking the much loved author’s centenary, new version reconstructs the classic children’s character, ‘fower times as lang as the langest hu...

The shortlist for the Wainwright nature-writing prize’s third year is announced as bookshops report dramatic rise in the genre’s sales Now ...

Toffler was one of the world’s most famous futurists who foresaw how digital technology would transform the world Alvin Toffler, a guru of ...

Toffler was one of the world’s most famous futurists who foresaw how digital technology would transform the world Alvin Toffler, a guru of ...

17 young activists to be released three months after they were arrested during a book club meeting discussing non-violent resistance to repr...

Hair-raising stories from the fishing ports of Cadgwith and Newlyn reveal a Cornwall very different from that known to tourists and second-h...

Among the frontiers identified are time, the cosmos, consciousness and God, but aren’t swaths of knowledge concerned with meaning rather tha...

For those reading George RR Martin’s fantasy series, HBO’s dramatisation has been thrilling – but now it’s ahead of the books, it will be wo...

After six novels, the author explains, fiction had begun to seem like a rather hollow formula. For his seventh, The Crossing, he wanted to f...

Illustrator Alex T Smith takes us on a fascinating tour of Enid Blyton book cover art from the 1940s to the present day Continue reading......

This re-creation of Odysseus’s convoluted route home from Troy is a study in self-deprecation that wears its learning lightly Let’s get the...

On the centenary of the Somme, these are the titles that best bring the horror show to life I was still a teenager when I first struggled th...

The music journalist’s account of her life and encounters with the stars is both angry and hilarious Before the myth-making, chin-stroking m...

She and her bookshop’s staff have assembled a great, inclusive list. As with all lists, there are annoying omissions – but I’m not sure I co...