Hephzibah Anderson

Jhumpa Lahiri’s delicately harrowing third novel, “The Lowland,” is a family saga spanning more than 60 years. Its plot pivots on secrets and lies, and it is as much about parenting as politics.

Colm Toibin and Jhumpa Lahiri are among six finalists for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award.

Writers are not famed for their athleticism. Yet according to novelist Sebastian Faulks, there is one sport that’s made for them: cricket.

Jacob Putnam is a sensitive young Harvard graduate burdened with literary aspirations. Having quit an advertising job in pursuit of artistic freedom, he’s traveled to Prague and become the archetypal innocent abroad.

Terry Eagleton first visited the U.S. in 1970. “Hair” was big on Broadway and he was dragged along by some nuns who wanted to get up and dance on stage.

If you find yourself sitting across from Paul Fraser Collard on the 6:20 a.m. to London Stratford, you’ll notice his suit and urgent typing and assume he’s catching up on emails, perhaps putting the finishing touches to a report.

Thanks to a looming takeover, happy- go-lucky trader Mickey Summer is in line to share a 150-million- pound ($223 million) cash lock-in. If he can stay alive and out of jail, that is.

Jeffrey Archer’s flair for storytelling has made him one of the best-selling authors of all time. It’s also landed him in hot water, most notoriously in 2001 when he was jailed for perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

U.S. writer A.M. Homes won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for “May We Be Forgiven” last night, beating the favorite Hilary Mantel and four other novelists.

Forget the old boy’s club. Groups like the Brazen Hussies, Power Bitches and SLUTS -- aka Successful Ladies Under Tremendous Stress -- are where today’s hot deals are being brokered and they’re strictly girls-only.

When novelist Lynn Shepherd set out to capture the excesses of the Young Romantics, she was able to draw on a previous career in banking in the 1980s.

In Claire Messud’s smoldering new novel, a 37-year-old elementary-school teacher becomes infatuated with a student’s family and experiences a heady awakening. That’s only half the story, though. “The Woman Upstairs” also offers a furious account of betrayal, the true source of which is withheld until the final pages.