Women Poets' prize reveals first three winners

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Lost literary masterpiece of 1960s black America comes to UK

Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January

Thin Air by Richard Morgan review – dazzling space noir

Michael Connelly's crime fiction career honoured with Diamond Dagger

The Joy of Waterboiling is hot tip for oddest book title prize

Indian law school offers course on Harry Potter universe

Ladybird book authors make light work of Brexit

Stephen King sells film rights for story to Welsh teenagers for $1

To Kill a Mockingbird voted top 'Great American Read' in US poll

JK Rowling's Harry Potter continues to drive profits at Bloomsbury

Poet laureate writes sonnet for Danny Boyle's Armistice Day centenary events

How Agatha Christie’s wartime nursing role gave her a lifelong taste for poison

First Macavity the cat, now Molly the mutt: the sequel TS Eliot dreamed of writing

Grotesque realism and a blood-soaked blockbuster – the week in art

Children's authors welcome Ofsted's move to lighten stress on testing

Behemoth Bible returns to England for first time in 1,300 years

Judy Blume's Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to be adapted for film

Anthea Bell, 'magnificent' translator of Asterix and Kafka, dies aged 82

TS Eliot prize announces 'intensely political' shortlist

Food bank and housing charity thank Booker winner Anna Burns

Anna Burns wins Man Booker prize for ‘incredibly original’ Milkman

British writers scoring highly in huge US poll to find ‘Great American Read’

Neon and corporate dystopias: why does cyberpunk refuse to move on?

Man Booker prize: Daisy Johnson tipped to be youngest ever winner

Hank Green: 'I used all my power to make YouTube powerful, good and strong'

PG Wodehouse fans delighted at plans for Westminster Abbey tribute

Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of 'superhumans'

Booker prize novel sparks free speech row in Czech Republic

Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus review – brilliantly bleak short stories

‘Up-lit’ gives hope to publishers at Frankfurt book fair

Alternative Nobel literature prize goes to Maryse Condé

Johnny Depp defends JK Rowling's casting of him in Fantastic Beasts sequel

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Novel news: world's biggest bookworms revealed in study

Jesse Ball's 'strange and beautiful' Census wins Gordon Burn prize

James Patterson says saving libraries is down to readers

Anthony Scaramucci praises Trump and trashes Bannon - again - in new book

Women avoid transgender debate in fear of reaction, says Jo Brand

Growing up in a house full of books is major boost to literacy and numeracy, study finds

'Forgotten' female poet of first world war to be honoured at armistice centenary

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accepts PEN Pinter prize with call to speak out

Antony Sher: was Shakespeare a misogynist?

Eighteenth-century doodles of a chicken in trousers go viral

GCSE textbook condemned for racist Caribbean stereotypes

Western spies no better than Russians, say espionage experts

After Burroughs and Beckett: opening up experimental fiction beyond old white men

Mr Darcy’s reputation as romantic hero trashed at Cheltenham literature festival

‘So what’ fiction isn't creating passionate readers, says Pat Barker

Sebastian Faulks reveals he is working on 'Pinteresque' play

Kate Atkinson calls authors reviewing their peers a 'callous art'

Library hours across England slashed by austerity

Whisper it... quiet revolution in calming videos goes global

David Unaipon, the 'Australian Leonardo', finally gets his due

John Simpson says ex-BBC boss was pushing him out for being old

Topshop axes Penguin pop-up to promote feminist book in store

Is there still no place like home? $100,000 offered for the best answer

Gemma Arterton and Keira Knightley write hardhitting pieces for feminist collection

Cottingley Fairies fake photos sold for £20,000, ten times estimate

Patrick O'Brian's unknown poems discovered in a drawer

Yulia Skripal chose Salisbury as family home, book reveals

Rosewater by Tade Thopson review – a stellar SF debut

Super Thursday: one day sees 544 new books fighting to be Christmas hits

Hannibal Lecter creator Thomas Harris announces first book in 13 years

Andrea Levy's Small Island novel to be staged next year

Remains of real Wolf Hall discovered by archaeologists

Stephen Hawking's first wife intensifies attack on The Theory of Everything

Fascist Spain meets British punk: the subversive genius of Judge Dredd | Ian Dunt

Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale

Amazon signs major deals with Neil Gaiman and Bear Grylls

'I am barely alive': war reporter's Angola memoir made into animated film

Sergei Skripal initially did not believe Russia tried to kill him – book

Myth-busting study of teenage brains wins Royal Society prize

Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra dies aged 70

Jean-Claude Arnault, man at centre of Nobel scandal, jailed for rape