Whether you’re craving dark fantasy, smart literary fiction, heart-tugging romance, or unforgettable memoir, the books hitting the shelves this month are near-guaranteed to hit ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some of us weren't so sure about this far-future set slice of hard science fictio ...

Plan your reading in advance with our guide to new books published in Australia in August 2025. Have we missed some best books? Publishers, please send your advance book lists, in any genre, to our ...

Nothing instills an idea of the world as a complex place demanding deep understanding like a book does because a book is ...

Aug. 1 marks Emancipation Day in Canada. Here are 25 books by Canadian authors that examine themes of racial and social ...

Enid Blyton, a British author beloved by children across generations, is estimated to have sold more than 600 million copies. Her popular series—including The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, and Noddy ...

What do murder-solving history professors, trad wife horror stories and Nazi-fighting witches have in common? They're all in ...

Alvy Carragher and Ali Choudhary have won the Eavan Boland Award 2025, Poetry Ireland has announced.

Studio Ghibli has released two dozen feature/TV films since its founding in the mid-1980s. While some are naturally greater ...

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It’s an interview,” Adrian Edmondson says, giving a sigh of resignation, “so at some point I always talk about my problems. It always comes out: what kind of person are you…?” It’s a reasonable ...

My love for sports and the written word are both so deeply embedded in my personality, it’s hard to narrow down which came ...