We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

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From the most anticipated literary debuts to the return of heavyweights like Stephen King and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, there ...

If your New Year's resolution was to read more fiction, 2025 has an embarrassment of riches to offer. There are big heavy ...

This is clearly an idiosyncratic, random and extremely incomplete list of great books. In truth, I simply wandered around my house, pulling some short novels I love from the shelves. My parameters ...

But there’s good news: Observer is here to help with a list of the best short books to read this January. You can get a head start on your goal right now while you’re at your most motivated.

Explore the greatest literary works of Virginia Woolf, from Mrs. Dalloway to To the Lighthouse, discover her unique impact on modernist literature.

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re always reading novels or nonfiction. They look at me with ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).