Books

Dan Hill’s absorbing new memoir reveals a complicated family and time

A bestseller denounced as a ‘masturbation pamphlet’ is about to be published in Canada

Now 91, and formerly one of the most prominent book editors in Britain, Athill’s various memoirs freely acknowledge she’s had the luck: good genes, good family, good time to be born.

The long-suffering head goes on to tell a series of intricately interlocked tales of headlessness—the helpless, stultifying effects of oppression, that is.

Reality and fiction collide spectacularly in Cornelia Funke’s beloved ‘Inkworld’ trilogy, a magical ode to reading

The result is The Optimist, an ultimately serious book that’s actually pretty funny.

Garner’s taut, angry and loving little novel, The Spare Room, about a grandmother putting up a dying friend who’s come to Melbourne for last-ditch “alternative” cancer treatment.

Longest gestation, best baby: Now 69, Patrick Lane had been an iconic poet for decades and, more recently, the author of an...

With prices as high as $999,999, Librissime is selling intelligent conversation pieces

Critic James Wood’s How Fiction Works can both annoy and exhilarate.