No one loves to be seen in public with a book more than a Gen Z hot guy … except perhaps a Gen Z cool girl

The actor was tormented at school for his sexuality. But bullying can be just as bad for actors on set, he tells Andrew Billen

From Richard Osman to Sally Rooney — how to judge people by the books they take to the beach

The scientist’s physics blockbuster is the number one bestselling book of the past 50 years. Why is it still such a hit?

Her family chronicle, Wild Swans, brought home the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Three decades later, she reveals she is writing a sequel

A deeper dive into the stats behind the historic charts — and the highs and lows of the past 50 years in books

With five books in the Top 100, the author of Notes from a Small Island talks about being an adopted Brit, how his wife made his career and why we should all cheer up a bit

What does the Sunday Times columnist read when he’s off duty? Clarkson shares his reading list — from Cormac McCarthy to Winnie-the-Pooh

From the book she can’t finish to the day she realised she was on the Sunday Times bestseller list, the author shares the culture that made her

Four decades after Adrian Mole (13 ¾) shared his toe-curling diary, two writers pay tribute to the enduring comic genius of Sue Townsend