For his family, choosing 100 poems from a long career, was weighted with memories

Max Porter's acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is being adapted for the stage by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy

Willy Vlautin writes novels and sings songs about the growing darkness of American life

The double Booker winner’s new work has its roots in Australia’s dark colonial past

Irish writer becomes joint youngest winner of the Sunday Times prize with ‘Conversations With Friends’

The English DJ and musician reveals his favourite books, films, visual artist and more

Jane Harris’s third novel is an unashamedly old-school adventure story in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson

Who knows when Sgt Pepper by The Beatles was first declared the greatest LP of all time? It’s not even their best

How the sexually ambivalent David Bowie and Marc Bolan subverted rock’s patriarchy

Author wins for satire on race in the US and becomes first American to win prize

The controversial author’s latest novel sees a woman fall for an outsider with a dark past

Eoin McNamee’s ‘blue’ novels explore Northern Ireland before the Troubles

Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The Kind Worth Killing on Harry Potter, Lucky Jim and his other favourite reads

Novelist best know for the Adam Dalgliesh series wrote her first novel in 1962

A weekend-long workshop event in London generated new ideas about using digital technology in new ways for publishing

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Economist takes a positive view of the prospects for the world economy and society in the coming decades

What writing trends have struck you lately? Pornography! I’m astounded at how many women want to read explicit descriptions of sex.

From John le Carré’s latest to Rachael English’s debut, there’s something for everyone in our selection of books for the beach