The passion and drama of sport, from a baseball prodigy’s comeback to the tough lives of jockeys, are captured in these stories

‘My writing saved me,’ said the New Zealand author. This rediscovered novel about a trio of misfits shows what an idiosyncratic and bright talent she was

Plus, punchy short stories by Jeffery Deaver and a Groundhog Day-style air disaster thriller

No one loves to be seen in public with a book more than a Gen Z hot guy … except perhaps a Gen Z cool girl

The actor was tormented at school for his sexuality. But bullying can be just as bad for actors on set, he tells Andrew Billen

From Richard Osman to Sally Rooney — how to judge people by the books they take to the beach

The scientist’s physics blockbuster is the number one bestselling book of the past 50 years. Why is it still such a hit?

Her family chronicle, Wild Swans, brought home the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Three decades later, she reveals she is writing a sequel

A deeper dive into the stats behind the historic charts — and the highs and lows of the past 50 years in books

With five books in the Top 100, the author of Notes from a Small Island talks about being an adopted Brit, how his wife made his career and why we should all cheer up a bit