She looks set to do the same for younger readers with her first children’s novel, in which five neurodiverse school children band together to solve a fiendishly clever mince-pie-related mystery. Fox ...

Check out the Christmas edition of the RTÉ KIDS Book Club, with thanks to our friends at Children's Books Ireland.

The run-up to Christmas just got an extra glitter and glow with a magical selection of board books, picture books, activity ...

Is fiction good for us? We spend huge chunks of our lives immersed in novels, films, TV shows, and other forms of fiction. Some see this as a positive thing, arguing that made-up stories cultivate our ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you our latest reviews, World War II novels we love, books set in the 18th century, thrilling historical mysteries, books that bring the Middle Ages ...

Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (Hutchinson Heinemann) have been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards.

Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

Crowds make their way through the Shibuya District in Tokyo, home to a key railway station and one of its busiest neighborhoods. Rudy Sulgan/Corbis Yuval Noah Harari has a few unconventional theories ...

The 2025 nonfiction lineup is brimming with must-reads for every curiosity. Each publishing season so far has brought an array of memoirs, biographies, and cultural deep dives, from millennial writers ...

There aren’t many young adult fiction trilogies that get better as they progress. At most, if the first book is good, the author manages to maintain the quality throughout the sequels. But L.A.

At a time when interest in the country’s culture is booming, the cleaning guru shares the inspiration for her latest book, Letter from Japan ...