"The Optimist" tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who escaped Auschwitz and later used his story to inspire Bay Area teens.

A Dunfermline-raised film editor has released a personal short film inspired by his father’s dementia. David Arthur, 43, grew up in Inverkeithing and Dunfermline, attending St Columba’s High School ...

Sara Pennypacker’s novel for young readers tells the story of a boy awakening to courage in Nazi-occupied France.

Children can learn so much from books that sustain us and contribute to a sense of wellbeing and healing in our mental health.

The flaw of child heroes is their vulnerability, their trust in the adults in their lives, their tendency to look to them for ...

Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, was acclaimed “the poet of the spy novel”, having almost single-handedly rescued spy ...

Tony Ventura, the main character of Kevin Sampsell’s surreal novel Baby in the Night, doesn’t have the words or the context to understand his surroundings; he’s only two years old after all. “It was ...

"Mule Boy" is a novel told in what may look like one long, searing sentence. Picking up on New Year's Day, 1929, when Ondro Prach, 13-year-old son of Slovak immigrants, begins work as what's called a ...

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you and the book gods shine down on you, with a few of these stellar reads ...

While working at the NIH, she wrote “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing,” a groundbreaking study of OCD. She also researched childhood schizophrenia and ADHD.