36 h. ago Air miles be damned. I say the best way to find out about the joy and complexity of our world is through novels | Pushpinder Khaneka

For me it started with Colombia and Gabriel García Márquez. As I read 200 books from different regions, I gained a clarity news reports seldom giveSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreDear reader, are your shelves heaving under the weight of books by dead white folks? Do your eyes glaze over at the mention of foreign fiction? Is your reading diet missing the vibrant flavours of stories from Africa, Asia and Latin America? Restricting your reading to novels from Europe and North America is like going to an all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet and just eating tortillas. Why do that?I have been getting to know about countries in the global south through literature. Being an intrepid traveller, current events addict and avid reader led me inexorably to read books from around the world. The book that most reeled me in to the ability of literature to open the door to...

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39 h. ago I’ve already read 36 books this year, but this is my standout favourite

This could be the best debut of the year

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4 d. ago Harry Potter fanfiction centred on Draco and Hermione lands historic six

A book based on a widely-read Draco and Hermione fanfiction has reportedly just been offered a six-figure movie deal - and it's left fanfiction readers excited for more

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8 d. ago Best Agatha Christie books to read that spin a classic mystery yarn

It’s a murder on the dancefloor

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9 d. ago Books of the Month: What to read this September, from Arundhati Roy’s searing memoir to Ian McEwan’s sci

Martin Chilton shares his September reading highlights

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1 week ago I read every day — these 8 books are the best I've read in 2025

Some are recent releases, others are classics but they're all worth reading

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2 w. ago British children’s book Making Science Magical reaches #1 on Amazon in US and UK

A British children’s book that blends science and fantasy has climbed to #1 on Amazon in both the US and UK — being hailed as a bold new kind of children’s fiction.

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2 w. ago I read books for a living — these are the 10 best new books I think everyone should read

Whether you prefer romance, crime, fantasy or even just regular fiction, here are the 10 best new books for September I would recommend to anyone.

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2 w. ago The Thursday Murder Club is now on Netflix – here’s how to read the books in order

‘The Impossible Fortune’ is available to pre-order ahead of its release on 25 September

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2 w. ago Rebecca F Kuang: ‘A Tale of Two Cities is deeply silly camp – I love it!’

The US writer on being switched on to romance by Sally Rooney, the magic of David Mitchell and the joy of Jean-Paul SartreMy favourite book growing up Brian Jacques’s Redwall (and all its sequels). All I wanted was to be a squirrel in the Mossflower Woods!The books that changed me as a teenager I read China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station and The City & the City when I was in college. I had been falling out of love with fantasy – I felt too old for Redwall, and I thought I’d outgrown the genre – but Miéville’s work opened the door to the enormous world of adult fantasy literature that grappled with the problems I was now interested in. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'As a Thursday Murder Club book fanatic the film was a huge disappointment'

For anyone who has read The Thursday Murder Club book, prepare to be left frustrated.

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2 w. ago Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page

A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed taleYou don’t think you need a novella about a folk-singing shrimp fisher living with his mother on a fictional stretch of isolated coast until you read Benjamin Wood’s Booker-longlisted fifth novel, Seascraper. Wood conjures wonders from this unlikely material in a tale so richly atmospheric you can almost taste the tang of brine and inhale the sea fog.As unexpected as his previous four books – which range from a campus intrigue (The Bellwether Revivals) to a sensitive study of a Glaswegian painter (The Ecliptic) – Seascraper follows the daily trials of Tom Flett, a “shanker” who scrapes the sand for its yield at low tide with his trusty horse and wagon, risking his life in a job that is simultaneously boring and dangerous. Tom is clearly in the Hardyesque tradition of unworldly young men who tend the land or work with their hands (Gabriel Oak, Jude Fawley), and it’s this t...

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2 w. ago Mark Wright shares adorable new pic of baby Palma as he makes plea to Oxford University

Mark Wright has shared an adorable snap of his five-month-old daughter, Palma, appearing to read a book, as he jokingly asked Oxford University at what age do they accept applications

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2 w. ago Mark Wright shares adorable snap of baby Palma as he issues plea to Oxford University

Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan's baby, Palma Elizabeth, is growing up fast as the proud dad shared an adorable snap of the tot appearing to read a book on Instagram

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3 w. ago ‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?• Read an exclusive extract from Nick Clegg’s new book hereThe rain is just starting to fall from a grey London sky as Sir Nick Clegg arrives, duckingthrough the traffic and carrying what looks like his laundry. C lean shirts for the photoshoot, he says, before apologetically wondering if he might possibly get a coffee. Within minutes he has further apologised for wanting to swap the leather club chair he is offered for a hard plastic one; and then, in horror, for any impression inadvertently given that my questions might send him to sleep.Impeccable English manners should never be mistaken for diffidence – at 58, Clegg remains the only British political figure who could convincingly be played by the equally posh but self-effacing Colin Firth, whose old London home Clegg recently bought – but t...

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3 w. ago I’ve already read 35 books this year, but this is my standout favourite

This could be the best debut of the year

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3 w. ago Fern Britton names the 1 book she's planning to read this summer

Fern Britton has shared the one book she's determined to read this summer as she embarks on a Mediterranean retreat - and it's another Sunday Times bestseller

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4 w. ago These are my 5 favourite books that can be read in less than a day

From Claire Keegan's ‘Small Things Like These’ to Vincenzo Latronico's ‘Perfection’, these novellas are less than 200 pages

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