The book drops the reader into the present day ... it does meditate on the avenues of escapism we use to leave behind our darkest realities. Taylor’s characters know there is no beauty in ...

And, while all novels offer an element of escapism, children’s books do it the best of all. In the pages of our favourite childhood reads, we find a positive skew on the world that’s all too ...

While promoting her new memoir, Gypsy Rose Blanchard has shared some of her favorite books that offer her an escape from ...

Princeton University economist Angus Deaton has written an elegant, wide-ranging, and fascinating book on the history of U.S. and global progress in health and material well-being from prehistory to ...

Helen Garner’s novel was first published in 1984. In 2008, a chamber opera based on the book was composed by Andrew Schult ...

People in the UK were stockpiling novels and home learning books last week as they prepared for a spell in isolation, sales figures suggest. Sales of fiction rose by a third, while children's ...