Reading is far from dead, as these mega-selling authors prove

Franz Hessel's ‘Walking in Berlin: A Flaneur in the Capital’ documents the city in the late 1920s

The famous story of a group of schoolboys trapped on an island is more than a little reminiscent of the real world right now.

Mark Nicholas's book gives fans a ringside seat amid the jollity of the sports best years, writes Amol Rajan 

Gaitskill’s reissued 2005 novel focuses on the friendship of Alison and Veronica, who meet during the noctural glamour of 1980s New York, but it is far more than a story about friendship

David Barnett's sci-fi fantasy roundup of new and forthcoming books includes an impressive debut, 'Defender' by GX Todd, Laura Lam's 'Pantomime' and Neil Gaiman’s 'Norse Mythology' 

After years of scandal, the poet Larkin has finally been memorialised in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner with a stone bearing his name lying close to other writers he worshipped, including Thomas Hardy and D H Lawrence

Patti Smith will perform one of his songs at the winners' ceremony

A parent claimed it validates offensive words as acceptable

Jonathan Portes marches boldly into a mountain range of towering topics, stretching from “money”, to “globalisation”, to “inequality”, to “secular stagnation"

Alcott would have been 184 today

Her new novel, about an African American maternity nurse who gets discriminated against when a newborn baby’s white parents take their child out of her care, addresses race, prejudice and justice

'I slide my hands down his back, all along his spine, rutted with bone like mud ridges in a dry field'

A new translation of Sade’s ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’ by Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn, published this month as a Penguin Classic, was challenging to translate because of the profanity

Drabble witty and intelligent story of old age and inevitable death does not make for an easy read

A study found that reading the fantasy novels improves tolerance of stigmatized groups across a range of demographics

'..again it was the power of my dreams, shining forth into wakefulness even before I fall asleep, which did not let me sleep.'

Collins states that the increase in the usage of Brexit is "unheard of" since monitoring began

Though 'Brexit' may have been declared Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year - the Danish lifestyle trend has also made a major splash in 2016