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France says it's "very concerned" about the disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has not been heard from since he was reportedly taken into police custody upon his arrival in Algeria on Saturday. Sansal is a well-known critic of Algeria’s government and a vocal opponent of Islamic fundamentalism.

I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well

The book goes back to Geralt's "teenage years"

The novelist on the comfort of Dodie Smith, how Anne Tyler made her want to be a writer – and why she doesn’t reread books

Singer/guitarist Mille Petrozza has co-written a book about the thrash metal veterans’ first 10 years of service, expected next year

Named after an Intel microprocessor, 8080 Books aims to ‘shorten the lag between the final manuscript and the book’s arrival in the marketplace’

The awards ceremony was hosted at Buckingham Palace.

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

The former culture secretary’s ‘real-life political thriller’ takes in sex parties and pasta plotters – but raises more questions than it answers