Her voice soundtracked the 60s and 70s, but the revolution silenced her. The legendary singer finally has her say, in this uneven memoir ...

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The science writer pragmatically shows how optimism can bring about real improvements in everyday life and change in the wider world ...

Two brothers attempt to escape their father’s gangland past in a tense, tender debut that moves between Thatcher-era Northumberland and southern Spain ...

Set in a colonial city after the first world war, this story of a battle of wills between an elderly widow and her young servant is deftly told ...

Novelist whose stories set in Britain and India combined realistic domestic detail with myth and magic ...

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade ...

The Belgian author’s genius comes to the fore in a dark domestic drama ...

Jessica Carmichael’s coming-of-age YA novel is set during the huge annual diasporic return to west Africa, which ‘changed the trajectory’ of her life ...

This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power ...

From an acclaimed short-story writer, this epic of power and class across generations in Pakistan is brutal, funny and brilliantly told ...

A deep dive into the creation of eight buildings from the 1700s to the 1900s tells some very human stories ...