Saul Leslie’s debut, A Working Title I Want to Change, may be the first novel ever set primarily in a Tesco superstore. It opens in October 2013, as the unnamed narrator begins his induction at the ...

You get a sense of the tone of Séamas O’Reilly’s debut novel before the action even begins. ‘To remember everything is a form of madness … confusion is not an ignoble condition,’ reads the first ...

A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new ...

Raccoons divide opinion: some see them as bandit-masked evil geniuses, others as cute critters. They owe their success to ...

The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac (Translated from French by Lauren Elkin) ...

Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A ...

Born into raffish Polish-Russian gentry in 1870, Vera Gedroits resisted convention from an early age. Passionate and rebellious, she wore cropped hair and trousers and, aged fourteen, persuaded her ...

Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen; Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer ...

Twenty-five thousand years ago, a boy and a dog walked into the Chauvet cave in what is now southwestern France. The boy carried a torch, and by this light he studied the horses drawn on the walls ...