Books

Kipling’s stories are far from cosy or Disney-ish

A Swedish novel about the ordinary confusions of infatuation

How the creator of “Alice in Wonderland” found logic in madness

How J.K. Rowling’s novels shaped a generation of young readers

A rare notebook returns home to Swansea

Looking back on the life of the “queen of crime” 

A Nobel prize-winning novelist who revealed the inside through the outside

Alix Christie remembers Germany’s troublemaker

After 40 years, Robert Butler revisits “Kes”

A compelling novel about an uneven friendship built on secrecy and illusions