The comedian, 52, had been off the nation's screens for four years when she launched her autobiography last year.

Journalist Miranda Spivack writes about so-called "accidental activists" in her recently released book: "Backroom Deals in our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms our Communities and the Local ...

This year's Women's Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Dutch author Yael van der Wouden for The Safekeep, a novel about an ...