The former journalist made his name with the story of a failed assassination plot on Charles de Gaulle. Read more at ...

A former correspondent for Reuters and the BBC, and an informant for Britain’s MI6 foreign spy agency, Forsyth made his name ...

The movie retellings are great. Pride and Prejudice is a joy to revisit. But it is a frothy, far-less-popular novel that draws me back over and over: Northanger Abbey.

The cold war was built on assumptions that Americans and Russians lived opposite lives. ‘What if that was a lie?’ the Irish ...

In her essay Going Global: Filmic Appropriation of Jane Austen in India, critic Meenakshi Bharat writes that Indian ...

Celebrated English novelist Frederick Forsyth passed away on Monday, 9 June, at the age of 86 in Buckinghamshire, England ...

Celebrated Kenyan writer and decolonial scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o passed away on 28 May at the age of 87. Many tributes and obituaries have appeared across the world, but we wanted to know more about ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus. Penguin, 1,040 pages.

Simon Thompson looks at the story behind ten great unmade films… “What if…?” scenarios are something which truly gnaw at the human psyche, in almost every context. Socially, romantically, and ...

A good story doesn't need dense, heavy text to be meaningful. These beach reads deliver on vibes and depth, making for the ...