TikTok recommendations are driving sales and launching authors’ careers as the social media app continues to reshape the industry

Actor Ruth Wilson narrates this powerful retelling of Ovid’s Pygmalion myth, in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue of a woman

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe

In ancient myth – and novels by authors from Neil Gaiman to Toni Morrison – these ambiguous figures are sometimes repressive, sometimes inspiring

These stories by authors from Elizabeth Gaskell to Jeanette Winterson show how societies in turmoil turn on the most vulnerable

Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women

Since it began in the 1960s, fanfiction has been both loved and dismissed as the work of nerdy amateurs. Now, a new generation of authors is dissolving the distinction

An exiled witch takes centre stage in the Orange prize-winner’s powerful retelling of Homer’s the Odyssey

From a modern classic by Nick Hornby to a rock memoir, our expert suggests books for reluctant bibliophiles

The books they loved and lost: publishers on their favourites – and the ones they wished they had on their own lists