The mood at French factories was stable this month as manufacturers shrugged off the country’s fractured politics and trade uncertainty, and looked forward to higher demand for their goods in ...

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The family of a French man who enlisted dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife have been torn apart by his ...

By Joumana Khatib and Emma Lumeij Bloom Books took off with the help of E L James, the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” It broke with tradition and became the fastest-growing imprint in romance.

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Demand for francophone titles continued to increase, with a record number of requests for French books made this year. The top French-language novels featured almost exclusively Canadian authors.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Like Max and Madeline, this boy and girl keep faith with ...

Sport fans: we have your Christmas sorted. Roger Alton has picked out the best sport books of 2024 ranging from the scientific way to score a penalty to the heartfelt memoir of Sir Chris Hoy.

Susanna Wright, of Wright’s Ferry on the Susquehanna, was one of the most accomplished and versatile Pennsylvanians of the ...

I’m sure many of you did the same. A good book is escapist. But at its strongest, reading is an utterly transformative act – the lessons we learn, the characters we meet and the perspectives ...

Gwynne Dyer’s new book is ‘Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas from the World’s Climate Engineers’. Last year’s book, ‘The ...

There are occasions when a writer sets out to write one thing but ends up writing something else. For me, this is one of such ...