Books

Author Matt Haig is coming to the Winter Cambridge Literary Festival to talk about his most personal novel yet, The Midnight Library.

‘The Princess and the Prick’ adds hilarity to age-old genres

A picture book is an unexpected place to find a discussion of death, but Cambridgeshire author Isabel Thomas enjoys talking about big ideas with kids.

Fragile documents from Isaac Newton's notebooks to an ancient handwritten bible and Shakespeare's First Folio are now on Google Arts and Culture.

After setting up a new comedy writing prize for women, Helen Lederer is keen for the freedom to write her wicked memoirs and enjoy behaving badly.

The secret history of a creepy asylum converted into luxury flats lies at the heart of Erin Kelly's new book

Paige Toon’s research for her stories usually sees her jetting off around the world - but her new novel saw her drinking Prosecco in Grantchester

Growing up in the Nevada desert where no building was more than a few decades old, local writer Tiffani Angus developed a hankering for the historic.

A diving lesson that was meant to be a research trip turned into a terrifying experience for the Cambridge author whose new novel is out next week

Bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah has launched a new course to help writers unlock their potential and join her at the top of the book charts.

Psalter goes online to reach new audience In the University of Cambridge digital library

Contributions sought from others with sight impariment by Impington-based DJ

Alex Spencer talks to Cambridge author Bex Hogan about Venom, the second book in The Isles of Storm and Sorrow series, and her teen pirate heroine

The ‘lite’ version of the spring festival will be available online from Friday April 17 to Sunday April 19.

Lifecoaches Judy and Adrian Reith's new guide to living the life you want in retirement has lessons for anyone feeling cooped up at home.

A stash of secret letters, a shadowy figure and one of England’s most famous authors inspired Gill Hornby’s new novel. Alex Spencer finds out more

Cambridgeshire author Bianca D'Agostino has written an uplifting children’s book entitled You Are Not the Boss of Me.

Alex Spencer talks with Tom Watson the former deputy leader of the Labour Party who has shunned sugar and turned his health around

The former government minister is set to present Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster at the Cambridge Literary Festival next month.

Cambridge author, illustrator and educator Kelley Donner has published two more books in her Happy Heads series.