The most beautiful coffee table books to buy right now
From Arabian leopards to Marilyn’s last shoot, Joe Bromley recommends the most luxurious tomes for the summer
The Sandman - how Neil Gaiman’s seminal comic book made it to Netflix
The highly-anticipated series is coming next month - fans will be agog to find out how the streamer has treated the much-loved work
Children’s authors on why The Railway Children is an enduring classic
As the long-awaited sequel to The Railway Children hits cinemas, we ask a panel of children’s authors what they think about the original film and book
London’s most popular Harry Potter books
London’s most popular Harry Potter books have been revealed...
Dominic Cummings, Rebecca Solnit and more on the best political books
Top thinkers appearing at the festival have picked out the best of political writing that might just make things seem a bit less mad
Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced
Fill up your summer reading list with these books by female authors
Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘Racism’s still very much in the DNA of the UK’
The legendary dub poet reflects on five decades at the heart of Black activism – and how he’s still fighting now
The Candy House: a disquieting novel about the digital age
Jennifer Egan’s sequel to A Visit from the Goon Squad is fiction’s latest attempt to make sense of where the digital age might be leading us, says Sam Parker
Kasim Ali: I was told vulnerable men like me were not allowed to exist
Good Intentions is one of the most eagerly awaited debuts of 2022. Here the author explains why he chose to tackle the conflicted, confusing and often painful topic of what it means to be a man
Get rich or lie trying: inside the growing class of micro-influencers
Bribery, fake followers and fraud — Channel 4 News reporter Symeon Brown explores the underbelly of the influencer economy and finds deceit, self-delusion and desperation
Bernardine Evaristo: There is bigotry lurking in the fabric of society
As she is appointed the first Black female President of the Royal Society of Literature, Nick Curtis talks art, politics and representation with Booker winner
World Book Day 2022: Everything you need to know
Children dressing up and £1 book tokens - here’s what you need to know about World Book Day 2022.
World Book Day: the debut authors to watch out for in 2022
Don’t miss out on these exciting debuts
The Lion House review: a zoo’s tame compared to Sultan’s court
De Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent is unconventional and gripping, says Melanie McDonagh
World Book Day: The best fiction books to read in 2022
Your reading pile is about to get even higher...
World Book Day: The best non-fiction books to read in 2022
2022 is the year of the memoir - here’s our complete guide to the best new non-fiction arriving this year
Is Lizzie Damilola Blackburn the next Bridget Jones?
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? is a witty millennial novel is about love, life and London. Katie Strick meets the Peckham author
Cleopatra and Frankenstein review: a positively inhalable debut
Coco Mellors’s witty, stylish debut about the fall-out from a snap marriage between an older man and a younger woman is nostalgic and very-readable, says Jessie Thompson
Molly-Mae Hague to release tell-all memoir aged 22
Becoming Molly-Mae: My Story will becoming to a bookstore near you from June 9
US school district bans Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about Holocaust
Author Art Spiegelman said he was ‘baffled’ by the school board’s decision and called it ‘Orwellian’
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston review: gripping
The extraordinary life - and death - of the media mogul whose boundless ambition included becoming Prime Minister reads like a gripping novel which happens to be true
The best (and worst) celebrity cookbooks of 2021, tried and tasted
Heading into the sales? These are the must-have cookbooks to pick-up… and avoid
14 self-help books to get you through times of uncertainty and change
In search of some guidance to get you through all this ? Wellness warriors share their top reads
Name-dropping, moi? The best celebrity memoirs to buy this Christmas
It’s Christmas, which means this year’s celebrity autobiogs have arrived in bookshops in all their star-studded, hardback glory...
The best books for children this Christmas
From a new book by JK Rowling to anniversary editions for the classics, our guide to great books for small people’s stockings
Patricia Highsmith: Diaries and Notebooks review
Across almost 1,000 pages, Highsmith’s diaries keep us entertained - and appalled
Silverview by John le Carré review: a minor masterpiece
The final le Carré novel is tinged with an autumnal sense of loss and the self-examination of an old man looking back on his extraordinary career
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout review
There’s lots of unshowy wisdom in the latest novel from one of our best storytellers, Elizabeth Strout
Karaoke, zombies and vlogs: why we can’t let go of Jane Austen
Jane Austen adaptations will never go out of fashion - why? And how do you make a good one?
Taste by Stanley Tucci review: the film star embraces his foodie side
Everyone’s cocktail-making lockdown crush has written a memoir about his culinary life
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny review
The verdict on Hillary Clinton’s foray into the world of writing political thrillers
Hilary Mantel: ‘Monarchy is a trap — but I was sorry Meghan left ’
As her novel The Mirror and the Light hits the stage, Hilary Mantel talks breaks with Europe, Afghanistan and why there is still mileage in Thomas Cromwell
The Christmas Pig by JK Rowling review: her best since Azkaban
The Harry Potter author gives us her Christmas Carol, and it’s a triumph, writes Amanda Craig