Chunks of her book have been redacted – were they the funny bits?
A controversial chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen has been excised, leaving Rebel Rising a mere potpourri of weak jokes and self-indulgence
A controversial chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen has been excised, leaving Rebel Rising a mere potpourri of weak jokes and self-indulgence
TV historian Bettany Hughes, 56, talks morning coffee, being shamed by facialists and adapting to life in a semi-empty nest
The novelist reveals how his near-death experience affected his writing, his dislike of The Crown and why he’s against trigger warnings
The publishing industry wouldn’t exist without authors, yet it pays them less and less – if at all. Is writing books still worth the effort?
Who said comics have to be comic? This year’s crop gave us haunted spas, apocalyptic visions – and the beauty of pastoral France
This Christmas, young readers can look forward to tales of His Majesty, three wily monkeys and a sumptuous reimagining of Peter Pan
Looking for a Christmas present for the music-lover in your life? Try Johnny Cash's lyrics, Sly Stone's memoir or Paul McCartney's snapshots
Our top thinkers turned the quest for hard truths into a mind-blowing funride
Year two of the war produced breathless tales of resistance, rebuttals to Russian propaganda, and the death of a promising young writer
This year, marriage went under the microscope in engrossing tales of mutual obsession, catastrophic union and doublethink
The Tory meltdown was a sign of the fractious spirit of the times. But consensus is possible – here are our politics picks of the year
In the 16 best poetry books of the year, readers meet Shakespeare's wife and Chekhov's sisters, a French comte and a wild London hyena
From 17th-century medicine to Hovis adverts, Agnes Arnold-Forster’s book Nostalgia explores why we see the past through rose-tinted glasses
Saul David’s hugely entertaining Sky Warriors recalls the remarkable achievements of the British airborne forces during the Second World War
Ten Years to Save the West portrays the former PM as so un-self-aware she’s almost an innocent – and makes her job sound near-impossible
Knife is a tour-de-force, in which the great novelist takes his brutal near-murder and spins it into a majestic essay on art, pain and love
Re-telling the true story of Mary Read, Francesca de Tores’s new novel Saltblood is a blood-soaked story of piracy and prejudice
The novelist reveals how his near-death experience affected his writing, his dislike of The Crown and why he’s against trigger warnings
Novelist tells fans she is receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy for glioblastoma
A rancorous battle over politics, and whether it should be race-or class-based, underpins Sunjeev Sahota’s fourth novel, The Spoiled Heart
Lucy Strange is the queen of Gothic chillers for children - and her sixth novel, The Island at the Edge of Night, doesn’t disappoint
In Dev Kothari’s delightful debut novel, Lena investigates her brother’s disappearance from an overnight express train in India
The children’s classic criticised for its ‘horrendous stereotypes’ was nonetheless made into a film. Then the real trouble began
Critics adored her gritty 1960 debut about a single mother: ‘she can suggest all the indignity of being sick in the Tube in half a sentence’
This edition, abridged by scholar Anjna Chouhan and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, manages to preserve astounding amounts of poetry
Clare Pollard’s first children’s book, The Untameables, puts a fresh spin on the Camelot myth with an adventuring 10-year-old hero
What Rosa Brought, which Jacob Sager Weinstein based on his mother’s childhood, is hauntingly told and sharply illustrated by Eliza Wheeler
The late Kate Saunders, it transpires, left behind A Drop of Golden Sun, a multi-layered story of children working on a war film
Christopher Childers has spent 10 years on The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse – and his translations sing from the page
Our Poetry Book of the Month choices for 2024 include a verse novel about talking dolls and the latest genre-busting book from Anne Carson
From Raymond Chandler's slippery similes to a scene Austen hid, a new exhibition reveals great writers' early drafts and discarded ideas
As the Irish singer champions The Forgotten Yeats Sisters for Sky Arts, she talks about women in history and the thrill of rock'n'roll