A maverick makes his match points

Damn Brown and his infernal codes!

Eight writers tell of the cruelty, corruption and poverty that provoked uprisings across the Arab world – and why the protests are far from over

Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the past 40 years, Brian Griffin was born in 1948 and grew up near Birmingham among the factories of the Black Country.

Obsession and horror in an eerily plausible modern 'Frankenstein'

The men who tarried with a Virgin Queen

Like father, like son, like motorcar

Queen Victoria, Buffalo Bill, and a mysterious Chilean heiress

If The Suspicions of Mr Whicher was as much about the inner life of the Victorian home as it was about murder, then Damn His Blood, an equally fascinating account of a real-life murder from the distant past, is about the inner life of a Georgian rural village.

This classic Richard Ford novel opens in Great Falls, a Rocky Mountains frontier town positioned right where the Missouri river turns to the east.

This coming-of-age story of trauma and survival among the Ojibwe never veers into polemic

Let untamed nature back into our neat landscapes. We have nothing to lose but, well, a few sheep

Throughout my teenage years, I read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

How many literary writers can boast of spending a (chaste) night with Marlon Brando? Or having Richard Burton ring their doorbell, just on the off-chance?

Every mother's son – and daughter – will appreciate this powerful chorus of family memories