What is going on here?” asked the author Wendy Jones last week on Instagram. She was referring to the fact that nine out of 10 books on that week’s best-selling paperback fiction list in The Sunday ...

“No one can have this system of slavery brought before him without an irrepressible desire to do something, and what is there to be done?” Harriet Beecher Stowe was 26 when she posed that frustrated ...