Sunday with Adele Parks: ‘I might sit down to write, with cats sprawled on my keyboard’

The novelist describes tells Nick McGrath that kale smoothies are nice actually, enjoys a spicy margarita and praises her feline assistants Gorgeous and Fabulous

The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin by Aoife Moore review – going mainstream

A warts-and-all account of Sinn Féin’s political journey out of the shadows

A haunted life: how Danny Robins became Britain’s high priest of the paranormal

Once a struggling comedy writer, he is now a highly successful podcast presenter and playwright. His secret? Ghosts

The new queen of spy fiction: how Ava Glass went from murder reporting to the bestseller list

The author started out covering crime in the US before getting a close-up view of the British security services. She remembers her first dead body and a strange encounter with a fake friend

Single minded: people with public lives on the pleasures of solitude

Joe Lycett likes to get into nature, chef Ravinder Bhogal strolls around her local area, Kirsty Wark heads for a Scottish loch… Nine famous faces reveal how they like to spend time when they’re on their own

His friend’s murder rocked Hua Hsu’s life – and made him the person he is today

Twenty-five years after the senseless killing of his friend, the author and journalist finally feels a sense of peace

Geri Halliwell-Horner: ‘Through the Spice Girls people saw that they could be themselves’

This singer and writer, 51, on the Spice Girls, white-water rafting – and aiming for Oxford University

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution

A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life

Top of the List: the best things to watch, read and cook in Australia this weekend

In a new weekly column, the team behind pop culture newsletter Saved for Later recommend their latest and/or forthcoming obsessions

Like millions of Australians, I’ve fallen back in love with my local library

As a child Bec Zhuang spent many happy days at her local library. Returning as a cash-strapped adult, she’s rediscovered a space that can still meet her needs

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith review – notes on self-regard

Smith’s memoir concerns the end of her marriage but its real subject is self-love

Book week costume ideas: the coolest (and easiest) characters for 2023, according to booksellers

From print-out character masks to ‘the most delightful witch’, literature aficionados share their suggestions for the Children’s Book Week costume parade

Which person has had the greatest impact on the course of the 21st century so far?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Always judge a book by its cover! What I learned teaching life-writing lessons

My crucial lessons for aspiring scribes? Seek out debilitating trauma – and get revenge on your old foes

‘I thought of all the times I’d had to shout and my heart shrivelled up’: life with my hearing-impaired father

Their relationship was marked by confusion and frustration – until an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prompted author Katherine Heiny to take her father for a hearing test