A biography is a daunting task for any writer. How can you summarise a life? Can you realistically cover all of the source material? If the subject is well known, there are probably rival biographies.

Apart from the For Sale board, the house didn’t look any different from the last time I was here. Six months ago now. The day of my father’s funeral. A memory of how fragile my mother appeared that da

A little more than five years ago, I took up early morning swimming. I lived in Austin which is in the center of Texas. In the centre of Austin, there is a large park; in the centre of the large park

The absent black father, the kind of man once controversially criticized by President Obama as “missing in action”, who casts a pall over his dependents, figures prominently in Africa and the African

COME on, Auntie Jo – your turn!” Seven-year-old Sophie pushed the little cubes of wood across the table towards her aunt. Jo glanced at the clock and sighed. Still another 10 minutes before her niece

Debut books are always exciting as a new voice enters the world of literature. Amy Sparkes talks to writer Iqbal Hussain about his debut middle-grade novel, The Night I Borrowed Time, which is publish