A thought-provoking examination of the literary stars who became Catholic – from Evelyn Waugh to Muriel Spark ...

A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change ...

Publishing hype tells us we have to buy 'urgent' new books – but there's so much to be gained from older works.

Here Comes the Sun” author and activist Bill McKibben on his newfound optimism, harnessing energy from heaven vs. energy from ...

If you’re looking to get into audiobooks, it can be difficult to know where to begin. The days of chunky physical CD or ...

Catholicism provided greater certainty than the Church of England, which was considered a wishy-washy institution by many in the 20th century ...

Colleen Kelsey’s ‘Wearing It Out’ sees the writer ask her friends to tell the stories behind their most precious garments ...

Dive into the lives and loves of some of the world's most eminent people through the best memoirs and biographies of the year ...

Vargas Llosa ran in the Peruvian presidential election in 1990 on a center-right prospectus (he lost to Alberto Fujimori), while Marquez numbered himself among the supporters of Fidel Castro. The two ...

With the announcement that the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots is to go on display at Perth Museum next year, Herald columnist Rosemary ...

He was definitely experimental. It wasn’t as if he played just rock, blues or jazz – he foraged a different line. To me he ...

With a group of volunteers in West Lothian collecting a record weight in rubbish this year, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring asks if we ...