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Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

Uwe Neumahr’s The Writers’ Castle, translated by Jefferson Chase, is about the reporting of the Nuremberg war crimes trial in 1945-6. The title refers to a mock castle outside Nuremberg where most journalists lived and worked when not in the courtroom. (A number who didn’t get in wrote as if…

Discipline follows a journalist and an academic navigating censorship in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza – an issue the author is no stranger to herself

Kamala Harris' Secret Service was removed by US President Donald Trump. The former VP's aides are now worried about Kamala's safety.

'The Thursday Murder Club' adapts a hit mystery novel into a standard but still fun whodunit.

Amanda Lambe couldn't help but shed a tear – or two – in her short review of Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall and we've never ordered a book so quickly before

The Albanian author of Free and the Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past

The claims are made in Power and the Palace, a forthcoming book by royal biographer Valentine Low

Eve Muirhead has accomplished much during her life, including Olympic gold, but the hardest thing she's ever done, she says, is write her…

In 1977 Richard Booth announced Hay-on-Wye’s independence — and declared himself King Richard

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Irish star, who cut a suave figure as the 007 of the new millennium, has traded spy gadgets for OAP crime-solving in ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. He speaks to Patrick Smith about getting older, the importance of political protest, and the truth behind his confusing ‘MobLand’…