It was a great time to be a romantasy reader in 2025, as many new books straddled the line between the fantasy and romance ...

For 25 years, the Amazon Editors have read and debated thousands of new releases to create the annual Best Books of the Year list. This year’s lineup offers something for everyone, featuring the ...

From swoon-worthy romance to epic adventure (and dragons), the fantasy genre offered every kind of reader a way to escape in ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

The Booker Prize Winner books are some of the best books of a year and needs to be finished within the year it has been awarded in, although if you have missed out on the current and previous year ...

Fletcher’s Storythinking explains the vast role that storythinking plays in human affairs as chains of narratives drive ...

Clarity over credentials shapes books that rethink human behaviour, emotion, and decision-making without academic distance or ...

If humans were fish, our water would be narratives. We never experience reality unmediated. Light and sound filter through ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...