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Empathic and rich in human detail, this 1994 novel of Black life in 1950s Kansas deserves to reach a wider audience

A love affair in 1980s Berlin mirrors the demise of the socialist dream in the German author’s absorbing fourth novel

Writers are receiving enticing bids for foreign rights to their books this spring, but many feel they cannot accept the money while the war continues

Musician restores 250-year-old instrument of writer’s cousin, who is said to have inspired Mansfield Park character Mary Crawford

Irrfan Khan's wife, writer Sutapa Sikdar, says she wishes to pen a book exploring the funny side of the late actor's personality. With a career spanning over three decades, Irrfan was known for his performances in "Maqbool", "The Namesake", "Paan Singh Tomar", "Haider", "Piku" and "The Lunchbox". He died from…

Julian Jackson’s meticulous, engaging history of the collaborator general and his downfall is a gripping study of dishonour and denial

The poet says she and her mother became ‘women who shared something’ after the discovery

Speaking on Desert Island Discs the US poet revealed she had been conceived ‘as a product of rape’.

The Labour Shadow Health Secretary's searingly honest book, One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, charts his journey from the East End to Cambridge University and Westminster

The Duke of Sussex gifted a copy of his memoir, Spare, to cabin crew Holden Pattern who worked on the American Airlines flight across the Atlantic.

The former FBI director, who was sacked by Donald Trump, on parallels between the ex-president and mafia bosses, why he would never run for office, and his new crime thriller