Booker club: Winnie and Wolf by AN Wilson
It's long since been knocked out of contention, but this ambitious novel about the romantic appeal of Adolf Hitler remains a cracking read.
Religion row hits Pullman epic
Dark Materials movie softens book's attacks on Catholic church.
Vietnam, sea snakes and a suicide bid
Swimming proved one of the few bright spots in genome pioneer Craig Venter's high school years. When he was drafted to serve in a frontline hospital, it was to offer him salvation, as he recounts in this second extract from his memoir.
Love letter that sealed a death pact
A year before their joint suicide a French writer penned a confession of devotion to his ill wife. Now it's a bestseller.
Back down to Earth
Why, when men and women are more equal than ever, is the myth about the sexes coming from different planets so popular? Deborah Cameron, in the third of three extracts from her new book, argues that the 'Martians' and 'Venusians' are more similar than they think.
‘I kept her book by my bed for 18 years’
Last week, we asked readers to tell us which books opened their eyes to the women's movement. The response was overwhelming ... here are just a few of your letters.
Madeleine L’Engle
Obituary: Bestselling children's author, renowned for A Wrinkle in Time.
What language barrier?
It is a truism that men and women do not communicate in the same way. But is there really any evidence to support this Mars-and-Venus theory? Oxford language professor Deborah Cameron investigates in the first of three extracts from her new book.
Atheists arise: Dawkins spreads the A-word among America’s unbelievers
· Author outlines campaign to give godless a voice · New organisation appeals to 'downtrodden' millions
Revd Paisley converts few at book bash
Northern Irish leader prompts wincing at Wigtown.
Discredited Irving plans comeback tour
· Historian blames Himmler, but not Hitler · Writer freed from jail says views have 'crystallised'
Question time
Hannah Pool: Graeme Le Saux on the gay jibes that marked his footballing career, his axing as a BBC commentator - and the Chelsea bust-up.
The books that changed our lives
Six leading feminists recall the writing that first opened their eyes to the women's movement.
‘You got rid of one Saddam and you left us with 50’
Iraq faces new forms of tyranny rooted in its Ba'athist past, a leading historian tells Ian Black