TV for cocooners: 20 high-quality, old-school series to stream

Here’s some cosy TV to make confinement more bearable

New chapter awaits as Booker Prize loses ‘enemy’ sponsor

Not all literary awards find it easy to fully forget their old corporate partners

New chapter awaits as Booker Prize loses ‘enemy’ sponsor

Not all literary awards find it easy to fully forget their old corporate partners

Man Booker Prize searches for new sponsor after funding dropped

Former judge Sebastian Faulks reportedly criticised Man Group as ‘the enemy’

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: Groundbreaking book changed the view of first World War

In a new introduction to All Quiet, historian Norman Stone argues the brutality of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel changed perceptions about the war

Verdun: hell and patriotism

The story of one of the largest first World War battles on the Western Front is being seen in a wider context

Diarmaid Ferriter: What we can learn from women’s book clubs

We could all benefit from women discussing how we should be governed

Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts

War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities

Brought to Book: John Boyne on Noddy, Homer Wells, ‘Birdsong’ and a Kindle tip

‘I am at my happiest when I have completed a first draft of a novel and am about to begin a second’

Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for comic novel of the year

Sebastian Faulks, Hanif Kureishi and Helen Fielding are rivals for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

Bringing Birdsong to the stage

Adapting Sebastian Faulks’s novel for the stage proved a challenge but it is well-timed for the centenary of the first World War

Brought to Book: Ben Kane on his writing life

My books are born from my obsession with Roman history. I’ve followed Spartacus’ trail across Italy. I’ve stood at Cannae and imagined Hannibal’s army meeting the massed legions of Rome

Manil Suri wins Bad Sex in Fiction award for ‘quarks’ and ‘superheroes’ scene

Britain’s ‘Literary Review’ draws attention to ‘crude, badly written’ passages

Word for Word: Taking on the mantle of Poirot