The unseen private correspondence of novelist and playwright W Somerset Maugham will expose him as a "terrible" father, according to a new biography. John Murray will publish The Secret Lives of ...

“The Letter,” one of the most successful of W. Somerset Maugham’s stories, appeared in 1926 and is still popular today. It recounts the trial of Ethel Proudlock for the 1911 murder of her secret lover ...

The unusual title of Edward Price’s article on energy company profits “Everything in excess (please)” (FT Alphaville, FT.com, September 20) reminded me of a quote from Somerset Maugham: “I have not ...

The House of Doors, in a way, is a sort of reverse engineering of The Letter by William Somerset Maugham,” says Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng about his latest novel, longlisted for this year’s Booker ...