Literature

A former Reading MP says he believes the town was the second place in the UK to receive the books.

From a dizzyingly brilliant heist to a devastating tale of generational loss, here are the year's most acclaimed works of fiction so far.

Archival assistant Callum Tostevin-Hall found manuscripts showing Guernsey's medieval past

Archivists discover 17 manuscript fragments from medieval times were repurposed as book covers.

The plans would be an "immersive celebration" of a "global icon" who wrote his best-known works while exiled from France.

Now 175 years old, US author Herman Melville's classic is the ultimate tale of man v whale – but in fact, it questions why humans have been so terrified of these great sea creatures.

A film about the great Argentinian author's trip around Scotland in 1971 has premiered in Edinburgh.