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Game of Thrones: After explosive season 7 finale, how will the show finish?
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is set to air in 2019
Man Booker Prize 2017: A look at the longlisted nominees
The longlist is led by Arundhati Roy's return to fiction with her second novel The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness
Book review: Laleh Khadivi’s A Good Country explores how intolerence can send a teen into radicalism
Laleh Khadivi’s latest novel is the story of a typical American teenager eventually seduced by the dream of a Muslim caliphate.
Author Fatima Bhutto sees deepening shadows across Pakistani life
The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon author will appear at this year's Sharjah International Book Fair.
Hassan Sharif’s 1982 piece on display at London’s Whitechapel Gallery
To be included in this huge - and genuinely global - survey of abstract art, entitled Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art And Society 1915-2015, feels like a big moment for the UAE artist.
Fahrelnissa Zeid: Inside a major new retrospective of the late artist
As London’s Tate Modern presents a retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid’s work, we delve into how the artist’s life was as colourful as her work
Book review: The Things We Thought We Knew is a juxtaposition of black comedy, memory and place
It will be equally at home on young-adult and more literary bookshelves – which is not an easy balancing act for a debut novel to achieve.
A new generation of Indian writers using humour to tackle tricky subjects
As books from Diksha Basu, Balli Kaur Jaswal and Sandhya Menon begin to gain international attention, Ben East looks at the development of a new breed of Indian ‘chick-lit’ novels that combine comedy and satire with real heart and soul.
‘It’s very close to my experiences and those of my friends I worked with’, says filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton
Filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton was one of the many people filming events in Tahrir Square, Cairo, during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He tells us why he decided to tell the story of that unforgettable time in a novel rather than a movie
‘It’s very close to my experiences and those of my friends I worked with’, says filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton
Filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton was one of the many people filming events in Tahrir Square, Cairo, during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He tells us why he decided to tell the story of that unforgettable time in a novel rather than a movie
Book review: Jill McGivering’s Daughters of India tells both sides of the story
Jill McGivering has had to tread very carefully with her story of the struggle for Indian independence – which you would trust her to do, given she is the BBC’s South Asia correspondent.
Book review: Jill McGivering’s Daughters of India tells both sides of the story
Jill McGivering has had to tread very carefully with her story of the struggle for Indian independence – which you would trust her to do, given she is the BBC’s South Asia correspondent.
Book news: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to get first graphic-novel adaptation and more
Plus: The Power by Naomi Alderman wins the Baileys prize for women’s fiction and Dubai-based author Karen Osman to get first novel published in November.
Why it took 20 years for Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy to release her second novel
Arundhati Roy's enduring popularity is a staggering display of what her eight-million-selling debut continues to mean to so many people – and a reflection of the excitement surrounding The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
