Ben East

The Chemist makes a play for the more serious, adult-thriller market – the book is even dedicated to Jason Bourne and Aaron Cross. 

Plus: Steve Coogan's production company buys rights to Zadie Smith's Swing Time? and Bob Dylan unable to attend Nobel Prize for Literature award ceremony.

Every year, the International Prize For Arabic Fiction invites emerging writers to “nadwa”, a workshop at the Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort, where they can develop their skills with two established authors.

Something is missing from Ryan Lobo’s Indian take on Don Quixote.

Although it’s set in Georgia during the 1850s, The Underground Railway resonates with the current political atmosphere in America. We talk to the writer, whose eighth book is a front runner for the National Book Award.

It is not spoiling anything to suggest IQ feels set up to be the first in a series, much like that featuring author Joe Ide’s hero, Sherlock Holmes.

The questions and potential answers in Multiple Choice reveal uniquely profound takes on life in Chile under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet – both funny and melancholic.

The tent studio is open to the public, and anyone can apply for tickets to be part of the audience for the show.

Rupi Kaur talks about coming to terms with fame, controversy, and being a voice for women.

Set in a conservative society in northern Nigeria, Season of Crimson Blossoms tells the story of a devout Muslim grandmother’s relationship with a former criminal, 30 years her junior.

The youths are left to fend for themselves by The Doctor when the monsters invade their school.

Four months after the United Kingdom’s era-defining Brexit vote, Ali Smith has produced this outstanding snapshot of a country – in fact, a world – seemingly locked in a nightmarish spiral of intolerance, fear and suspicion.

The novel about a group of friends in the war-torn city, is finally available in English, six years after it was published in Arabic. She tells us how her experiences in the city inspired the book.

When the pianist decided to take on Franz Listz's tricky etudes, he knew the challenge he faced. He tells us how he turned to jazz to help him understand their magic.