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The new series is drawn by David López

"He would do himself a great favor if he found an honorable way of moving somewhere else."

Publisher ‘profoundly sorry’ for hurt caused by Spirou and the Blue Gorgon as it recalls 30,000 copies from shops

Rivals season 2 will take us back to the fictional county of Rutshire for the second part of Jilly Cooper's best-selling novel.

New film of Juan Rulfo’s novel, revered as founding text of magic realism, is first film adaptation in half a century

The author’s novella about two young women whose yearning for freedom comes at a price sometimes feels unconvincing and underpowered

I’ve always been a history nerd, but it wasn’t until I started working at The Conversation that I really caught the medieval bug. Inspired by our academic experts, I’ve read books, trawled online archives, and when I worked on an article about the Book of Kells earlier this year, I…

President congratulates Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye for books responding to violence in Algeria and Rwanda

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel set during Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s. His main rival was Burundi-born Gaël Faye, who was Monday handed the prix Renaudot, another coveted prize.