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12 of the best Oscar Wilde quotes

3 of the best Rudyard Kipling books

5 of the best Thomas Hardy books

How Thomas Harris defined a genre and created fiction’s most likeable villain

Secret Service by Tom Bradby

Why Japanese classic Territory of Light is a hidden masterpiece

12 of the best Mark Twain quotes

‘Libraries protected me at my most vulnerable’: Kerry Hudson on why libraries can't be lost

The 11 rules of succeeding with nonsensical ideas, according to an advertising legend

Bernardine Evaristo: ‘Older black women, who writes about that?’

Elisabeth Moss reads The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook

6 popular myths about the D-Day landings debunked by historian James Holland

Paul Mason: Governments are now controlling us through phone algorithms

The stories behind the notebooks that documented Rob MacFarlane's travels underground

How to tell the time using the sun and other natural signs

Ian McEwan on rewriting the past: 'it's not quite a dystopia, it's something slightly better than reality'

6 Japanese classics to read in Spring

The Feather Thief: 'He unzipped the suitcase and began to fill it with the birds'

Benjamin Carter Hett on the paradox of Hitler and his rise to power

Are you addicted to your mobile phone?

Sara Collins sets out to rewrite the characters who have traditionally been invisible in Gothic fiction

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton: How I succeeded as a female firefighter

Robert Macfarlane on creating the cover of Underland with artist Stanley Donwood

Jackson Brodie is back: exclusive extract from Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

The Porpoise by Mark Haddon: an opening to die for

Have you ever asked your mum who her first love was?

7 iconic scenes from The Handmaid’s Tale graphic novel

Ali Smith returns with Spring: 'We must look to ourselves for hope'

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