Click the button below to listen or continue scrolling to explore all of the books mentioned in this episode. From bonnets to Valspeak, Jane Austen has been interpreted countless ways on screen. But ...

Escape into this exclusive extract from Julia Kelly’s The Fisherman’s Gift - an exquisite love story that delves into the griefs and hopes that can lie behind village gossip. Joseph knows the storm is ...

You can usually tell within five minutes whether a TV show is your cup of tea. The same can be true of books – we’ve all put down a hefty tome within the first 50 pages, mildly offended by our ...

The prestigious Booker Prize has been celebrating outstanding fiction for over half a century. Take a look at some of the Vintage winners from previous years. What do you usually prefer: the book or ...

It’s hard to believe Ted was once a skinny, unwanted pup who was dumped outside an animal shelter, before he found fame and fortune alongside Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse on the hit BBC series ...

Click the button below to listen or continue scrolling to explore all of the books mentioned in this episode. Lisa Jewell, Abir Mukherjee, Sarah Pearse and more on the crime books that shaped them, ...

The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict.

This prize draw is open to UK residents aged 18 years or over, with the exception of employees of the Promoter, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this promotion. Entries must be ...

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with ...

To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies - The ...

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen ...

Iris Costello is the pseudonym of bestselling author, Nuala Ellwood. She has a BA Hons degree in Sociology from Durham University and a Master's in Creative Writing from York St John University where ...