Be it shining a light on female-centric books or encouraging young people to read, these famous bibliophiles have all started their own book clubs

A newspaper group’s publication of a translated version of ‘Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters’ has raised freedom of expression concerns on both sides of Japan’s political divide.

Steve McCurry, the award-winning photographer behind ‘Afghan Girl’, talks about celebrating selfless dedication beyond religion in his new book, Devotion, and blending into sacred situations.

‘Patriot’, a memoir the Kremlin critic began working on in 2020, will be published in October.

Thrilling HBO Vietnam war drama, directed by The Handmaiden’s Park Chan-wook, stars Robert Downey Jnr as various characters and Hao Xuande as a Viet Cong spy working for the chief of the secret police.

Tired of the same old tourist guides to Hong Kong? The Hong Kong Design Centre has produced Design Citywalk HK, a guide to the city’s cultural offerings featuring places well known – and unexpected.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s 2009 book Half the Sky opened the eyes of Natalie Chow, co-founder of Hong Kong-based sustainable and ethical shoe brand Kibo, to human trafficking and slavery.

The Harry Potter author made social media comments about trans women, testing the legislation on the same day it came into effect.

A new book, The Challenge of Choice … How to Make a ‘Good’ Decision When It REALLY Matters! by Richard Fast, teaches people basic steps to decision making and examines the inner workings of the human mind.

A cookbook by Swedish chef Fredrik Berselius doubles as an instruction manual for trainee surgeons but can be equally enjoyed by home chefs looking to sharpen their knife skills.

Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and The Terror: Infamy producer Alexander Woo, talk about their Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past.

BitTorrent downloads topped 90,500 on the first day of release, far surpassing those of other popular Netflix series like Squid Game and Stranger Things.

The world’s largest library reading space, housed by the Beijing City Library in China’s capital, was inspired by nature – think rice paddies, a river and trees – and designed to be something of a social space.

The Belgium FA has unveiled the new kits for its male and female teams, with the home kit in the traditional red while the away kit is a tribute to the famous cartoon character.

Fresh from her talk at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, newly minted author Sonia Leung tells Kate Whitehead about life in a Diamond Hill slum, a devastating rape and how she finally followed her dream.

In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable minority who have been persecuted and lost many of their historic documents.

Netflix drama 3 Body Problem, from the makers of the Game of Thrones series, is an adaptation of Chinese writer Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece, and depicts the fight against an alien invasion of Earth.

The Gourmand’s Lemon celebrates a fruit that has inspired designers, writers and artists – as well as chefs – all the way back to the ancient Egyptians

In a new book, Big Bites Break Boundaries, Hong Kong-based mental health advocate Stephanie Ng reflects on her years of anorexia nervosa, her recovery, and the pressure of diet culture.

Lucy Lord MBE, a decorated obstetrician who is also the founder and executive chair of mental health charity Mind HK, reveals the Jane Austen book that she has read over and over again for 50 years.

Burn Book calls Elon Musk a malevolent narcissist and Mark Zuckerberg ‘the most damaging man in tech’, as its author, veteran Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher, warns about the rising dangers of AI.

If the themes in Dune, about a resource war, climate change and a dying planet, sound familiar, that is because they should – Frank Herbert intended his novel to be a warning, not just a story.

Elon Musk and Bill Gates have long warned of the dangers of AI getting out of control – and some celebrities are already having to contend with it, but these are the stars hitting back

This new adaptation of James Clavell’s novel Shogun on Disney+ sees Hiroyuki Sanada perfectly cast as a 17th-century lord, but it is Cosmo Jarvis as the flawed, sympathetic anti-hero who truly shines.

Ella Mills’ new cookbook ‘Healthy Made Simple’ features plant-based recipes that take no more than 30 minutes to prepare – the sort of things that helped her overcome postural tachycardia syndrome.

David McAllister, former principal dancer with The Australian Ballet, and its longest serving artistic director, helps people peek behind the curtain with his new book, ‘Ballet Confidential’.