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Events in Berlin to promote former chancellor’s autobiography remind people of when ‘everything was more or less OK’

FORMER first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s favourite book has been removed from the Scottish Higher English reading list ...

We want dragons, rose gardens and strong characters who are absolutely getting laid but whose relationships with men don’t define them

In her second novel the crime author cannily uses the trappings of her genre to explore the ways society and the justice system fail women

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history. Sociologist Roger Southall has brought them together, so to speak, in a book, Smuts & Mandela, The Men Who Made South…

'The Madness' is a Hitchcockian thriller made for our day and age.

Hegseth’s conspiracy theory- and falsehood-laden book American Crusade depicts Islam as historic enemy of west

An environmental scientist goes in search of a hidden aquifer, in an action-packed novel that reads like a movie pitch

Michelle Obama shares the simple way she starts every day, that makes her feel positive even if she's in a slump - and it doesn't take up too much time.

The ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ first edition was purchased for £10 in 1997

An aspiring young artist’s journey makes for a critique of the art world, in novel form