National Poetry Day is an occasion for everyone across the UK to celebrate poetry – in classrooms, bookshops and libraries, ...

With exclusive band interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secret ...

If you hold the status of an available, heterosexual millennial woman in 2024, you are probably an Ex-Wife. Claire Marie Healy writes about the brutal relatability of reading Ursula Parrott’s 1920s ...

Cavaliers, roundheads, MPs, clergymen, ballad-writers, playwrights, poets and ordinary men and women: many turned to poetry during the turbulent 1650s. The shocking execution of Charles I led to the ...

When writing a novel, I’m always trying to find ways to get closer to my characters and their world. These paths of approach are often non-literary—in the case of Intermezzo, I watched a lot of chess ...

Amara Sage tackles diet culture in second novel for Faber. In Girl, Ultra-Processed, Sage takes a searing look at diet ...

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath demonstrates more than anything that Plath was always at practice in writing. With its publication, readers will be able to trace themes, images and her developing ...

September’s Independent Bookshop of the Month is Sherlock & Pages in Frome, Somerset. We spoke to the co-owner, Luke Sherlock. Sherlock & Pages is a small independent conversation-themed bookshop in ...

We were deeply saddened to learn about the recent passing of Michaela DePrince and her mother, Elaine DePrince. Both women were extraordinary in their own ways and showed great courage and generosity ...