Brian Bethune

In 2020, books lose interest in Trump to instead focus on the changes that have reshaped our world (and ourselves)

The author of the Shetland and Vera novels calls herself a human geographer. The settings for her stories aren’t, she says, only a ’pretty backdrop to the action.’

The year’s best titles, according to our books editor, range from Margaret Atwood’s latest to a study of Jack the Ripper’s victims

Unlike good crime fiction, true crime stories are often more lurid, and document shoddy police work

A new book tells the story of the greatest wolf who ever lived, and the one greater than him

A new book examines injustices in American higher education

Humans are easily misled by con men and just as prone to misjudge people who act outside the norm. We really do need to learn to do better, argues the renowned author.

In her much-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the renowned author takes her anti-woman dystopia to the age of Trump

Linden MacIntyre tells the story of a place in Newfoundland where a deadly tsunami was only the beginning of the misery suffered by hundreds of residents

There is very little of our history the insect has not touched and a warming planet means it will expand its territory