Book Clubs & Reading Communities

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.

As the Booker prize-winning author prepares to publish his final novel at 80, we assess his finest workDuffy is the first in a series of crime novels about a b…

Barrister turned novelist Harriet Tyce is playing a blinder in the fourth series of the show. As a thriller writer myself, I recognise the traits that make her…

The death of a friend and the attempted murder of her husband Salman Rushdie loom large in the poet’s moving memoirThe night before her wedding to Salman Rushd…