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In My Work, the novelist examines the trials and tribulations of being a mother.

Some of the world's best female talents have been defined by their drug and alcohol problems rather than their work. It's time that changed

Authors from Plato to Han Kang show how much can be done with what might sound a narrow form – and how much fun can be had with it

(1) NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION – AND UNOFFICIAL HUGO FANZINE AND FAN WRITER PACKETS. There is less than one month until the Hugo Awards voting deadline and yet the Hugo Voter Packet is still missing the content for the Fanzine and Fan Writer categories without any explanation or progress. Chinese fans are taking

The trauma of the Holocaust is invoked for an uncertain journey into guilt and complicity

The award-winning author on his long-awaited new novel Oxblood, Irish roots and moving to Norwich

Darwin discovered that evolution proceeds with neither direction nor purpose. The natural world is largely indifferent to plan or plot. Yet we, story-seeking creatures that we are, see the world around us as more completed, more accomplished, than what came before. Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book explores these tensions by stitching together hundreds of fragments in the history of literary writing about the natural world—this excerpt alone is a collage of ninety-seven novels ranging fro...

‘Small literary fiction novels don’t help you pay rent. So, I aimed for something into which I put everything; write a masala novel and see what comes of it.’

Science fiction narratives have been mesmerising readers for decades. The futuristic worlds, unique settings,...

A book recommendation for winter!