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This public poetry scheme has been taking the grind out of commuting and delivering ‘life-worth’ since 1986

The actor, 80, describes his roles in Iron Man 3 and Sexy Beast and wonders if his greatest work is still to come

An unpublished book has emerged by the woman best known for her liaisons with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan

A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page?

The story of a mother and son who rose from the fringes to the top of Jacobean society is now a lavish new drama

The International Booker-winning translator takes a deep dive into the complexities of the role in her ambitious second novel

A writer hoodwinked the internet into thinking the singer nabbed his book title but he’s not the first author to pull a controversial publicity stunt

“A dark and delicious whodunnit that will haunt you anytime you dare to pause reading.”

The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the third in her trilogy of books…

The Listeners on BBC1 stars Rebecca Hall as a teacher driven crazy by a humming noise no one else can hear except one pupil played by Ollie West.

Any book seriously recommended by Patrick Radden Keefe needs to be investigated. The author of Say Nothing, his peerless study of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Empire of Pain, his never-less-than shocking investigation into the Sackler family, is one of the most formidable investigative journalists working today, so if…