Having been regarded as an outsider medium for many years, graphic novels are gaining credibility and entering the mainstream. Denise Mina explores and celebrates the comic book world, speaking to writers Neil Gaiman...

Known for her pointed newspaper portrayals of celebrities, journalist and writer Lynn Barber, once dubbed "the demon barber of Fleet Street", chats to Lauren Laverne about her memoirs and the upcoming film based on them.

Crime writer Denise Mina explores the work and thoughts of fellow author David Peace as they explore the city of Leeds, the setting for much of his work, including the Red Riding quartet about the Yorkshire Ripper and...

In this exclusive web-only interview, the visionary director behind Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro, talks to Mark Kermode about the first of his trilogy of vampire novels, The Strain.

The winner of this year's prize, Philip Hoare’s Leviathan is an intimate study of man's relationship with the whale.

Manjit Kumar's account of the intellectual revolution that opened up the structure of the atom and the great debate over the nature of reality.

Liaquat Ahamed’s work is a timely profile of the four central bankers who played a role in bringing about the Great Depression.

Ben Goldacre's book is a beginner’s guide to seeing through sloppy science, as used by everyone from newspapers to the drug industry.

Richard Holmes re-unites Romanticism and Science in his exploration of scientific discovery in the late eighteenth century.

Author David Grann endures the Amazonian jungle to re-trace the steps of explorer Percy Fawcett, in search of a mysterious city and an early twentieth century hero.