The judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will narrow the 12 down to a shortlist in May. The winner will then be announced at the Borders Book Festival in June. More than half ...

Twelve novelists have been longlisted for a £25,000 award named after a famous Scottish writer. The judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will narrow the 12 down to a shortlist ...

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of ...

Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York. By Juliana Barbassa and Jennifer Harlan The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled ...

Laurence Rees asks: Are we in danger of history repeating itself? The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan ...