From art to sport, poetry to nature, travel to food, history to music: our writers select the best of the year’s books in a comprehensive guide to the highlights in every shade of the literary spectrum – except grey

From art to sport, poetry to nature, travel to food, history to music: our writers select the best of the year’s books in a comprehensive guide to the highlights in every shade of the literary spectrum – except grey

‘Tax arrangements’ turn out to be arrangements by which you arrange to not pay any tax.

It's been 57 years since the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.

Yesterday the White House marked the anniversary by tweeting a picture of Barack Obama sitting in the bus where Parks stood her ground.

There will be more blind auditions and fewer live shows in the new series of The Voice as BBC bosses attempt to improve its viewing figures.

Patrick Leigh Fermor is revered as one of the greatest, most poetic of travel writers. Matthew Bell, on the other hand, believes he is actually rather dull

Drunken skating and the metaphysics of tennis

Ryder Cup hero blasts American institution and claims he would make a great sports psychologist

Bryan Talbot's graphic memoir Dotter of Her Father's Eyes and Days of the Bagnold Summer by Jeff Winterhart are both nominated

The unlikely combination of Mary Berry and James Bond have helped to give Aga's chief executive William McGrath "an air of optimism for 2013".

'I had no interest in Irish music,' he recalled. 'I wanted to be a soloist in the Carnegie Hall'

A freight train crashed into a parade float carrying US military veterans and their spouses in Midland, Texas yesterday, killing four people and injuring at least 16, police and parade organisers said.

'I've got a bit of a savoury tooth – I snack on anything from crisps to calamari'

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