Inspired by the historical figure known as Lambert Simnel, THE PRETENDER (Knopf, 471 pp., $30) is a rollicking account of a ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work?

Goodreads has shared its list of the best books from each year of the past century, and you'll find a mix of genres and ...

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, ...

Author and creator Scott Adams has the same cancer as Joe Biden and doesn't expect to live much longer. Here's how old he is ...

In this way, Adams’s book explores class as well as race ... (He had been shot and paralyzed in Maryland the previous day.) Richard Nixon, running for re-election, had demanded “an immediate ...

For his efforts winning author Richard Adams Carey will be presented with "a passable bottle of claret". Readers may recall there was a Thai winner of this award back in 2012 with a book entitled ...

If you happen to have read the 1972 novel “Watership Down,” a brutal epic about warring tribes of rabbits written by the British author Richard Adams, as I quite coincidentally had recently ...

And he's got a point. Richard Adams fought in World War II. Glimpses of his wartime experiences emerge throughout the book. The rabbit Hazel was based on the author's commanding officer.

Past winners have included Belfast-born CS Lewis, who created the fictional world of Narnia, and Watership Down author Richard Adams. Ms Morgan said the award can influence the type of books ...

The country mansion that inspired Richard Adams' best-selling novel Watership ... Although many children's books at the time avoided violence and gore, Adams was not afraid to create a dark ...