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Asli Erdoğan bursts into tears as she describes spending 132 days in an Istanbul prison on account of her links to pro-Kurdish newspaper As...

“Alt-right” figure says he will write for Simon & Schuster’s conservative imprint, though previous book announcements have not materiali...

Although National Grid has agreed to use underground cables within the national park, it plans to place pylons just 10 metres outside park b...

Irish author’s first novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published 100 years ago A father and son acting duo, literary academ...

Hong Kong used to be a place of relatively free speech in China, but that was before Xi Jinping’s crackdown. Now everybody from writers to b...

The actor and writer was extraordinary: a woman the same onscreen as off, who could turn addiction and self-loathing into cynical, life-affi...

Writer, who did not begin writing until he was 52, won Carnegie medal and Guardian children’s prize for novel about group of rabbits Richar...

Academic says contemporaneous accounts of suffering are notably different to stories survivors now tell of triumphant resistance The discov...