Horror didn’t exist as a literary genre until 1967 when Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby hit it big, followed in quick succession ...

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A snake spirit transforms into a boy and hides his true identity after falling for a headstrong prince. Sher Lee's Legend of the White Snake, is a lush, queer romantasy retelling of the traditional ...

The creator of endearing, beautifully drawn characters and books that are both funny and full of heart, it's no wonder Emily ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. Since then, through his work with Inrupt Inc, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The Open Data Institute and the World ...

Whether you’re reading to your child, or they’re learning to read by themselves, little ones will want to return to these picture books for kids again and again. Full of loveable characters, playful ...

A brutally funny mother–daughter memoir that asks the question, How can you lose something you never had? Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of Erica Jong, author of the feminist autobiographical novel ...

Set on the RMS Lusitania's final journey in 1915, Patrick Gallagher, a government civil servant, escorts a British diplomat back to England. But after a passenger, secluded in a locked cabin, is ...

There are so many reasons to love short stories; not least their ability to immerse us in new worlds in the time it takes to commute to work, or the common themes that weave through anthologies to ...