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This contrived addition to a sub-genre popularised by H is for Hawk and Raising Hare falls to earth with a thud

Aliens drawn by a 2000AD artist, graphics echoing the Dark Side of the Moon cover, Dennis the Menace fronting bacon and baked bean flavour … we pop open a new 140-page celebration of the weirdest, wildest crisp bags ever

Memoir merges with fiction as the author reflects on failed love, ageing and the end of life in this last instalment to his writing career

"She was a tough customer – as she should have been"

The author is on board with the adventures of Dunk and Egg as the next Game of Thrones spinoff.

Booker prize winner, 80, says he has reached point of having ‘played all my tunes’ after new book Departure(s)

Brandon Sanderson calls George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones 'unrealistic' as fans await The Winds of Winter. Discover the clash over fantasy's dark realism.

Julian Barnes will be 80 on January 19, an anniversary he is celebrating with the publication of this book, which he says will definitely be his last, although he’ll continue journalism, plus a sold-out conversation with his old mucker Ian McEwan at the Union Chapel next week.

It's about to get hot in here.

Netflix’s new murder-mystery has me revisiting one of the best Agatha Christie thriller miniseries ever made, and you should binge it now.

French publisher Hachette has recalled a middle-school dictionary that described the Israeli victims of the 7 October 2023 attacks as "Jewish settlers" after an antisemitism watchdog raised concerns, promising to review all its textbooks and educational materials.