Inspired by the historical figure known as Lambert Simnel, THE PRETENDER (Knopf, 471 pp., $30) is a rollicking account of a ...

For more than a decade, Kazuo Ishiguro had a box file in his study marked “Students Novel”. In it were notes ... a mysterious boarding school in the English countryside with kind teachers ...

A video guide to all the consonant and vowel sounds in the English language. In this series we will be looking at individual sounds in English, giving you a chance to practise recognising and ...

Bangladesh’s repayment of foreign loans surged in the first 10 months while the inflow of loans from bilateral and multilateral lenders continued to fall, according to provisional data from the ...

In a cross-section of this month’s themes, Keith McNally’s overlong but generally absorbing memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, has titillating gay awakenings and restaurant gossip, and it’s ...

The last century has seen a whole lot of good books, but how many from Goodreads' list have you actually read?

As France battles the scourge of drugs crime in its streets, a top minister has raised eyebrows by evoking stopping the use of cash entirely to discourage narcotics deals. “How do we stop drugs ...

Despite their popularity, only few of Jin Yong's martial arts novels have been translated into English. The Legends of the Condor Heroes, one of his most well-known works, covers the Song Dynasty and ...

Yan Ge now writes in English, but she's still telling stories of rural China in her Sichuan dialect Sichuan-born novelist Yan Ge, who is famous for her stories of rural China that are written in her ...

Wendy Guerra admits she could have spared her latest novel from the baggage that comes with the word “Chanel.” But La costurera de Chanel (The Chanel Seamstress, not yet available in English), ...