Gavin And Stacey star Ruth Jones and The Housemaid author Freida McFadden are among the writers nominated for author of the year at this year’s British Book Awards. Welsh actress and comedian Jones is ...

When considering famous authors and their works of science fiction and fantasy, many of us think first of straight white men. But if we expand our vision of what makes great fantasy, a whole universe ...

Nikkei BP is also the Japanese-language home of international bestsellers like Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (Flatiron), both million-copy sellers in Japan, as well as ...

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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. In honor of the American Girl brand’s 40th anniversary this year, a new historical fiction novel on Samantha Parkington is headed to ...

Speculative fiction is the literature of change — which is another way of saying that resilience is in its bones. Many of genre fiction’s iconic works are about facing the worst, from Isaac Asimov’s ...

Do you want to travel to Mars, to an alternate version of 1939 London or even to the very far future? If so, then February’s science fiction is for you, with all three flavours on offer from our ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

Two fiction books about good friends coming from different circumstances. Two biographies of people whose influence on American culture is, arguably, still underrated. One Liza Minnelli memoir. These ...

Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi concepts depart significantly from established physics. A ...

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So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...