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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The play is from the highly acclaimed Original Theatre Company stable and developed in association with the Royal British Legion.

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 ...

In addition, Dominic Bilkey’s sound is first-rate, the various noises of war, as well as birdsong, being exceedingly ...

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 ...

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