Skipping between London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, this tale of family migration, politics and food has plenty of flavour and fire ...

The novelist issues a inspiring call for artists to exercise their autonomy in a world of gatekeepers ...

Therapy brings childhood trauma to light in this ambitious tale of family rupture – a smash hit in Italy that fails to live up to its hype ...

Essays by the great and the good address the legacy of Brexit, but ignore the nationalist elephant in the room ...

Her breakup memoir and Vogue column made her the voice of modern dating. As her debut is published, she talks about single life, oversharing and why she still believes she’ll find love ...

We try to pin down definitions and enforce rules – but often what we’re really arguing about is character ...

From novels by James Baldwin and Han Kang to a guide to quantum physics – a former Booker prize judge recommends immersive one-sitting wonders ...

The author of Orangeboy, Indigo Donut and Is That Your Mama? plans to use her two-year term to ensure children isolated from reading get involved ...

A young boy and his two siblings stay with their aunt in the West Country, in this haunting debut set over the long, hot summer of 1976 ...

From heads of state to foot-kissing knights, Hollywood romcoms to sex, a fascinating story of the gesture that for centuries has brought people together ...

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness ...

Writer of YA novels Orangeboy and Needle takes over from Frank Cottrell-Boyce and plans to highlight how reading can foster connection in fragmented times ...