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Bilan's debut novel is no saccharine children’s book, there is real-world peril on Asha’s quest

The best-selling Kuwaiti author decided to set sections of his book during an imaginary civil war in his home country… in 2020

The grandson of the late musical actor Muharram Fouad fuses eastern and western sounds in his work

We compile the best of this year's television. Get your popcorn ready, it's time to binge watch

The author's new book is a coming of age novel set in 1960s Sri Lanka that tells the story of two young friends

Like Lyra, readers of Pullman's novels too have grown up, which only confirms that his books have never been ‘for children’

He is one of our time's most influential authors and, at 72, he continues to find enthralling stories to tell

The film celebrates the effect one teenager has on her family

Whether portraying private family conflict or populist politics, creator Steven Knight wants the show to ring true with fans.

A fascinating anthology of commissioned work imagines what Palestine might look like in 100 years, through Palestinian superheroes, parallel worlds and drone swarms

The author's latest read ambitiously takes on the surge in scepticism among a once-credulous public, but in his bid to be timeless, he forgets to be timely enough

We speak to Dean Archibald-Smith, who is putting together Short Focus, a film festival that focuses solely on short films from the UK and around the world

'Semicolon' by Cecelia Watson unravels the history and purpose of the ambiguous punctuation mark

Without Morrison's radicalism – because writing without reference to the “white gaze” that she often decried is just that – 21st century literature might might look very different