Academic and author Professor Susan Sellers introduces authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, and the wider ...

Everything you need to know about the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mensun Bound's book about ...

This Booker Prize-winning novel and 1990s literary sensation follows fraternal twins, Rahel and Estha, in the state of Kerala, India in 1969. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they ...

"I absolutely loved this. Like an Adam Kay for psychotherapy, Dr Natalie Cawley opens up the closed world of therapy so well, with humour, honesty and fascinating insights." Frankie Boyle At the ...

Danielle Steel is the world’s bestselling living author, and has sold one billion copies of her books worldwide: if stacked, they would reach higher than 60,000 Eiffel Towers or 45,000 Empire State ...

David Baldacci has become one of the world’s favourite thriller writers, with his first novel Absolute Power, being adapted into the film of the same name starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. He ...

Whether you’re reading to your child, or they’re learning to read by themselves, little ones will want to return to these picture books for kids again and again. Full of loveable characters, playful ...

Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst returns with Our Evenings, the darkly funny story of Dave Win, who, after winning a privately funded scholarship to his local boarding school, is thrust ...

Short books can be just as profound and moving as a tome, as Chetna Maroo's Booker-winning debut proves. Exploring themes of grief and sisterhood, this debut coming-of-age story packs all the feels ...

After his mother is poisoned by a serpent, Prince Xian embarks on a quest to find the antidote, which can only be extracted from a rare white snake. Along his journey, he meets a young stable boy ...

Dystopian novels fascinate us because they draw on aspects of our own world. Mirroring elements of society, the environment, religion, politics or technology, the best dystopian books present a world ...