Decision announced by permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy

The TARDIS is getting a younger crew, as BBC Children’s and Education unveils the first look at ‘Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew’, a new animated preschool series

I didn’t read as many books as I usually do this past month because I DNFd so many, even though I was halfway through some of them.

Sometimes you want prestige drama that roils with nuance and complexity. And sometimes you want Armitage shouting in a cagoule

Using the tools of premodern critical race studies and whiteness studies, this article brings to critical visibility the Black women Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes in passing, only to leav...

Six writers are in contention for the £10,000 books prize, which celebrates fiction that ‘breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’

My mid-Sept 26 romance reading round-up!

Elegantly told and rich in meaning, “Fatherland” is a beautifully derived piece of heartbreaking art.

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

A terrific Regency, with a downtrodden widowed countess finding her feet/spine. Eliza was marr...

Spoilers: NoneGenre: Paranormal Mystery / Urban Fantasy DetectiveFormat: PaperbackSource: BoughtRating: Liked (4★) Smyth is growing as a writer with each book, and The Unfathomable Curse is the best in the series so far. In this instalment, The Undetectables detective agency faces its most personal case yet, and they are on the clock to solve it before a fatal deadline.

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - with the US as the only nation to vote against it.

Sir David Suchet (Poirot) is swapping the little grey cells for the suspect list this Christmas, as the BBC has announced a festive special of 'Ludwig',

The Booker Prize-winning author on reading his way through writer's block, and why every sentence has to risk going too far