Aged 15, her campaign for girls’ education made Malala Yousafzai the victim of a Taliban hit squad in Pakistan. Now 28, she opens up about her secretly wild student days at Oxford, her PTSD and how marriage has changed her

Hornby told Cheltenham Literature Festival that we should thank Cassandra, Austen’s sister, for burning the missives because the author was ‘bitchy’

The drummer brought arena gig energy to the latest stop on his talk’n’roll tour and opened up about Sting, splits and being a spy kid

Shadow Ticket will surely be the 88-year-old author’s final book. But reviewers seem to be annoyed that he still refuses to follow the trend of making fiction autobiographical

Donald Trump, on the other hand, has no interest in books. He probably didn’t even read his own, The Art of the Deal

The novelist and columnist recommends the ‘quietly brilliant’ novels of Lissa Evans and a modern masterpiece set in Chicago

Greedy, angry, rude: the title character in The Unspeakable Skipton is a brilliant creation. The author Pamela Hansford Johnson deserves a revival

The letter A was once an ox’s head and O was an eye — you’ll never look at a keyboard the same way after reading Danny Bate’s fascinating linguistic history

He was the highest-paid actor on TV until he became more famous for a drug and alcohol-fuelled public unravelling. In a new memoir Charlie Sheen reveals the truth about his spectacular implosion

Tina Gaudoin claims in The Incidental Feminist that the former prime minister had two affairs: one early in her career as an MP and one with another politician