A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes.
The commercial wizardry of Harry Potter has conquered new territory with a fillip to a type of book, <i>What’s Your Story?</i>
A controversial artwork has been unveiled as the centrepiece of major British Royal Academy exhibition, writes Martin Wainwright
Slavery has made a "horrific" return to modern Britain, according to the most wide-ranging study of the secret world of forced labour yet published. Shocking statistics about the country’s sex trade, including an estimated 5 000 under-16s coerced into prostitution, mask equally violence-ridden and illegal practices in jobs ranging from crop-picking and factory work to nursing and the catering trade.