An author that's new to me this year is Leif Enger. I picked up his newer book, "I Cheerfully Refuse," this summer, and I'm ...

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Every year, we read a lot of new music books, and it’s not only so that music-loving readers have holiday gift ideas for their loved ones, or just themselves; it also saves you time reading the bad or ...

They’re with you when you have lunch on the patio. You hear them while you’re tinkering in the back yard. They join you on the beach, and when you ponder the meaning of the stars in the sky.

This summer’s standout art and culture books include ‘Disobedient’, Elizabeth Fremantle’s novel on Renaissance rebel Artemisia Gentileschi, Bruce Weber’s latest photography collection, and a deluxe ...

The written word is pretty vital - it's useful for everything from lyrical emotion, comedy and drama, through to the instructions for your dishwasher! If we take written word to a performance level, ...

As the year 2025 inches closer to an end, former President of the United States Barack Obama shared a list of favourite books ...