What Pride and Prejudice's Mr Darcy would really have looked like
Sadly, the answer has turned out to be ‘certainly not Colin Firth’
Sadly, the answer has turned out to be ‘certainly not Colin Firth’
'Autofiction' has an important role to play in this new post-truth world
A prequel to A Game of Thrones
The best selling book on Amazon is '1984' – which was originally published in 1949. A historian from Case Western Reserve University considers how the novel resonates with today’s reality
Bloomsbury is celebrating all things concerning the Wizarding World, in events taking place all over the globe in celebration of Hogwarts' professors
Paul Auster’s hefty book of 866 pages, about a New Jersey man who leads four parallel lives, requires a great deal of concentration and commitment from the reader, but is well worth getting stuck into
Dublin-born author was inspired to write about a gay relationship after his son came out
Artist Robert Sikoryak’s most recent graphic novel found a new supervillain in Donald Trump. His latest work is even more surreal – a surprisingly readable adaptation of the iTunes legal agreement
The classic novel, first published in 1949, tells the story of a totalitarian regime where the Ministry of Truth disseminates propaganda and revises history
The astounding cover was designed by Joe Quinones
The feminist author has pulled the publication of How to Be Heard after Milo Yiannopoulos received a high-profile publishing deal from Simon & Schuster
America’s political paradigm shift is clearly making people ponder on the nature of dystopia, as George Orwell’s classic 1984 is the sixth best-selling book on Amazon right now.
The new film 'Jackie' shows the former First Lady as Camelot’s mythmaker, but two recent books reveal John F Kennedy as the image maker and a man who had shaky self-confidence
Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of imaginary languages’ most successful proponents – yet their aims were very different
Scottish literature returned to the spotlight after Graeme Macrae Burnet’s crime novel was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Timothy C Baker takes a timely look ahead at what else is on offer from Scottish authors in 2017
Samantha Ellis turns her attention to the youngest of the Bronte sisters, Anne, in her latest book, and realises she wasn't as meek as she was presented, after reading a sprightly letter the author wrote five weeks before she died, aged 29
A former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army child soldier named George, who became its leader Joseph Kony’s bodyguard, is the narrator in Ledio Cakaj’s ‘When the Walking Defeats You’
The Institute of Contemporary History published the reprint in January last year