I was staying with my relatives during my visit to New York. One evening, my cousin and I were walking along the road outside the house when one of the neighbours came over to ...

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...

The Kentucky Center for the Book, a part of Kentucky Humanities, has announced the Commonwealth’s selections for the 2025 ...

The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies has announced the shortlist for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize, ...

Tucked away in Columbus’s historic German Village sits a literary wonderland so vast and enchanting that bookworms regularly make pilgrimages from every corner of Ohio – The Book Loft spans an ...

If you're a fan of The Last Kingdom or The Winter King, there are slews of other Bernard Cornwell books that would make great ...

Kurt Vonnegut is credited with some of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, ...

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own books”. Even ...

Over four books, Mead has perfected his take on the locked-room mystery, one that owes a debt to John Dickson Carr. THE HOUSE ...