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Halfway through his new memoir, Al Pacino recalls a crisis that unfolded on the set of The Godfather while filming in Sicily. Pacino was shooting a wedding scene with the actor Simonetta Stefanelli, and at one point director Francis...

It takes a few anxious minutes for me to ring on Nick Harkaway’s north London doorbell, on the grounds that neither the taxi driver nor I is convinced it’s a private residence; its blankly businesslike doorway and proximity to...

The Silent SpaceGiven a choice by the gentleman, my third-grader sonelected to have me join him in the soundproofed roomto take his hearing test. Shy-seeming to the audiologisthis mother and I knew him better than that,how he wasn’t truly...

Helen Castor, 56, is an academic, author and broadcaster whose acclaimed books include She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth and Joan of Arc, both of which she also presented as television documentaries. She is a fellow commoner...

Writing Creation Lake was a uniquely blissful experience. The novel synthesised into one object many things I think about and feel connected to, in terms of who we are and how we’re meant to live, and how to maintain an...

My earliest reading memory I was five years old, in our third floor apartment in Stratford, Connecticut. The book was The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss.My favourite book growing upProbably And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. It...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. One of my favorite Read Harder Challenge tasks this year is #21: Read a book that went under the radar in 2023. Between...

There was something very pleasing about the runaway success of Kate Mosse’s last novel, The Ghost Ship, the third of her Joubert family chronicles. The book received little critical attention but was glowingly reviewed by bloggers and became a...

When ecstatic fans tell Barbara Kingsolver they’ve read every last one of her books, she always smiles inwardly. “I bet you haven’t,” she thinks, knowing it was a nonfiction account of an Arizona miners’ strike in 1983 that set...