Books

Jeanette Winterson on her mother, Joan Didion on her daughter, and Anthony Horowitz’s Holmes

Marilynne Robinson is a woman of few books, but many fans. In 2008, she discussed her third novel in 27 years with Emily Bobrow

 

The King James Bible is more than 400 years old, but the music of its sentences still rings out. What exactly made it so good?

A.D. Miller considers the work of W.G. Sebald, reissued by Vintage this Spring

Hilary Mantel is the first woman to win the Man Booker prize twice and the first British author to win twice. But, as she reveals in this memoir, behind her success lies a complicated relationship with awards

Nicholas Shakespeare examines how his lean and lucid prose intensified the drama of his novels

“His Dark Materials” is recognised as a classic. Tim de Lisle analyses its author’s crisp and vivid prose

Lady Jane Grey has become an iconic Tudor victim: virginal, sweet and beheaded at 16. But is any of this true?

Deborah Stoll continues her project to read the Bible from cover to cover