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Fire up the Kindle or hit the airport bookshop for one of these poolside scorchers

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At a literary festival in the sleepy town of Hoslewit, gruesome events are about to unfold. Writer Jane Hepburn is hoping to make it big at the Killer Lines Crime Festival by networking with all the r

It’s a bumper month for great reads! Our books editor, Nina Pottell , picks the best

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

If there’s anyone more obsessed with growing, cooking, eating and writing about food than Mark, we’re yet to find them. His books, such as Sour (2019), have won awards, so he knows a goodie when he se