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The Predicament by William Boyd (Viking, £20) A second adventure for amateur spy Gabriel Dax, first seen in…

Megan Greenwell. Photo by Loreto Caceres Story Annotations The author of “Bad Company” on the merits of waiting…

The chill in the air might mean summer is fading, but the return of the fall season also…

Stewart Home, 63, is a legend of British counterculture: a director, writer, playwright, and activist, famous for his…

Open this photo in gallery: Once dismissed as junk, Wood’s films now feel vital, stranger than ever and…

My earliest reading memoryI read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien at seven, in my bedroom in…

NEW YORK (AP) — At age 29, with several novels and millions of copies sold behind her, R.F.…

FICTION 1 The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin (Hachette, $37.99) A free copy of the new thriller which I reviewed…

It is bizarre to learn that, despite a career spent desperately trying to fill the dancefloor, reading the room…

Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of…

Hephzibah said she had always loved going to her local library, but when she was about eight years…

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