Tituss Burgess has revealed that he originally turned down starring in Oh, Mary! In a new video from Live! With Kelly and Mark, Burgess shared that although Cole Escola had shared that they wanted him ...

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks’s The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which a young woman answers an ad to carry a child that is, unbeknownst to her ...

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (NYRB Classics, $14). In this slim 1980 novel, a young man just back from the First World War is hired to restore a wall painting in a Yorkshire church. Carr ...

Schizophrenia is perhaps the human condition,” wrote Tim Crow in 2000.1 Crow had been researching schizophrenia for most of his psychiatric career but the origins of this most complex condition had ...

Your new novel A Possible Life weaves several different stories across different decades together: what inspired you to take this format and was it difficult to maintain? I used this structure ...

Condensing the First World War – a war which saw the slaughter of 9 million soldiers and 13 million civilians– into any art form is no easy task ...

In addition, Dominic Bilkey’s sound is first-rate, the various noises of war, as well as birdsong, being exceedingly life-like, always at the right volume level and, again, imaginative, greatly aiding ...

The actor left the BBC soap earlier this year after five years in the role of Ben Mitchell, before announcing in March that ...

Episode 3 - Joining Alan this time are film Calendar Girl Celia Imrie to talk about her latest novel and critically-acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks - we also meet rare-breed geese and Alan ...

James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Faulks about his bestseller Birdsong on the first edition of Bookclub from 1998. Faulks chose Miles by Miles Davis as his favourite track when he was ...