If you want to up your reading game and explore new genres, the Winter 2025 reading challenge is here to help. With nine ...

Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...

A 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away.

As the adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals airs on TV, we pay tribute to the escapist novels that had it all – sex, money and glamour ...

Hello, book lovers! This week we have a fresh batch of just-released book recommendations here at Woman’s World Book Club—from romance to fantasy, nonfiction and more, there’s something for everyone.

With Her Lotus Year, Paul French depicts a glitzy period the future Duchess of Windsor spent in China – but she’s too elusive ...

When I was looking through my best books of the year, I realized how many 5-star books set in the 80s I read this year.

A good historical ... novel deftly reconstructs their secret relationship, blending fact and fiction by weaving Asquith’s real letters into his text (Stanley’s responses are lost to history – the ...

Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction ...

No one knows anything. Everyone claiming to know something is lying. The odds are 50-50, always, even if they say the odds ...

Denbighshire libraries are set to host a series of events featuring a range of authors. The aim is to 'brighten up the cold winter days' by offering residents the chance to get an insight into each ...