This year’s standout novels offered a mix of brains and fun, with side-helpings of sex, God and rural Australia. Read on for ...

Abby Reinhard is a writer, editor, and native Jersey Girl. Before Best Life, she was working in medical writing, ...

This month is packed with new sci-fi and fantasy book releases, from the sweeping and epic to the intimate and charming.

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Explore Ursula K. Le Guin's captivating books, where imaginative stories, deep characters, and powerful themes create ...

This year saw a bumper crop of flawed and villainous heroes, some more traditional cops and the thrilling advent of a new spy ...

Most of these books were from outside the fire service ... and this job is about people. Read fiction to develop empathy. Read fiction to learn to interpret the words and actions of those around ...

By Alec Nevala-Lee Our columnist takes a look at recent books by Sofia Samatar ... A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer ...

Whether you’ve been looking to pick up a Marian Keyes book but weren’t sure which one or ones to start with, or maybe you’ve read ... books by the beloved Irish author – and three non-fiction – to ...

and cosy romance (Laurie Gilmore has two books in the ‘most sold fiction’ chart this week – both are smalltown US romances and both have a cat on the cover).” As Jane Lawson, deputy ...