From the publisher: A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life, featuring an introduction from his long-time friend, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBinyavanga Wainaina ...

From the publisher: A moving, eye-opening journey through the world of contemporary art from one of the most innovative voices in the fieldAt a moment in which working as a professional artist is an ...

To celebrate this year’s British Academy Book Prize, we’ve asked all of the shortlisted authors to tell us about the books ...

From the publisher: *AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**'Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ...

There were so many incredible books this year. I’ve stuck to poetry: my favourite collection of 2023 was Andrew Wynn Owen’s Infinite in Finite for its combination of technical adeptness and emotional ...

I’m seeing out the year in full cosy autumnal style, with two fantastic books about churches and a couple of seasonally appropriate reissues.

From the publisher: 'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the ...

Like periodical cicadas, big books don’t come out in dribs and drabs throughout the year but instead all emerge at once, in early October, culminating in so-called ‘Super Thursday’ – a day marked with ...

From the publisher: Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a ...

Our first Author of the Month for 2024 is Gerald Murnane. A true Australian original, Murnane is constantly returning to and reinvigorating his central themes – place, memory, landscape, horse-racing ...

Our Author of the Month for September is the Scottish novelist and screenwriter William Boyd. Born in Accra in what is now Ghana in 1952, Boyd wrote his first novel A Good Man in Africa (1981) while ...

To celebrate this year’s British Academy Book Prize, we’ve asked all of the shortlisted authors to tell us about the books they’ve been reading. Today, we hear from Marcy Norton, author of The Tame ...