Books

Becoming more sociable isn't about changing who you are, but taking a chance. It’s worth the risk

The former deputy prime minister has declared the advance for her memoirs - and it's nowhere near the huge amount touted

Gary Stewart was brilliant, briefly revered and doomed by drug addiction. Now a new biography finally gives him his due

Frank Furedi’s wearying In Defence of Populism reveals it offers no coherent and workable policy agenda and relies on authoritarian ‘solutions’

The traitor was driven by Marxist beliefs, a snobbish desire for dominance – but also a deadly naivety

Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down

An argument has broken out over a short story prize. But the argument over whether the author was human has revealed an unsettling truth about computer-generated text

A thaw between Xi and Trump is worrying residents of the independent island

Non-fiction sales are declining as fathers swap weighty Churchill biographies for history podcasts

The screen legend had 49 homes in her 36 years, and took her collection of 400 books wherever she moved

The damage from online shopping was bad enough – but now a new threat has emerged

Violence silenced her, before she decided to tell the world about it

The small matter of her ex-husband pleading guilty to embezzling £400,310.65 from the SNP won't stop the former first minister's book tour

The effortlessly stylish star preferred walking her dogs or arranging flowers to attending galas and premieres

How did the future M People founder make Manchester dance? He says it’s all about the attitude

In a new book, Cal Flyn describes the competing feelings she has on approaching the edge of a live volcano. It is a reminder of the power and mystery of the sublime

Boyhood author David Keenan is more like a soothsayer than a novelist

A capital built and rebuilt by dreamers, schemers and evildoers has gone from squalor to a hollowed-out paradise

Howl dials down the tirades for sorrowful soul-searching and reasoned debate

The US author’s best-selling The Hate U Give is being removed from school libraries in America - and now in Britain too

The Oscar-winner’s Bounty is a subversively beautiful work about the ugliness of colonialism

A new book predicts migrant riots, Brexit wars and a dismantled BBC - and none of it feels outlandish

A stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s book about an killer and the Tory PM questions both violent rhetoric and violence itself

A beautiful new memoir by novelist Siri Hustvedt, the writer’s widow, is full of philosophical insights

A new book suggesting Jesus and Christ were separate entities has scandalised the nation - even few will ever read it

A signed book as a schoolboy started my nature obsession. I’ve been learning from him ever since

Paul Johnson, the former head of Britain’s most important economic think tank, spent years scrutinising the UK. In his new book, he reveals one of the biggest misconceptions people have about the country and how it works

In an extract from his new book, the music business insider behind the acclaimed social media account explains how he hit rock bottom and how he fought back

Edward Chisholm’s first book was so good I’m making a movie of it. The second is even better

Deborah Levy tries but comes up short in a stylish romp through Paris in search of the exiled author and scenester

The hard right in Britain has never been so influential and its influence is starting to encroach on the political mainstream. And so I decided to fight

In a new book, the former SNP politician recalls the in-fighting, the vendettas and the back-stabbing in Scottish politics – and the time it literally made her sick