Murasaki shikibu the first novelist

When Shōmetsu Sekai (Vanishing World) hit Japan’s bookshops in 2015, its author, Sayaka Murata, was all but unknown on British shores. More Japanese books were starting to appear in English (notably T

To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we look into the life of this literary genius…

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged more than 250 years later – and we’re as obsessed with the author as ever

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

Why books that became beloved classics struggled to find their way into print