CPS will not prosecute UAE minister accused of sexually assaulting Briton

Writers protest after minister suggests anti-racism books support segregation

French bookshops ask to be treated as essential services during new lockdown

Anonymous Trump critic revealed to be ex-homeland security chief of staff

Reni Eddo-Lodge demands apology from Spectator over segregation comments

Legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company begs for help in pandemic

Wole Soyinka to publish first novel in almost 50 years

Historic Book of Lismore returning to Ireland after centuries in British hands

Harry Potter publisher says Covid has weaved magic over book sales

'It's political': Michael Robotham and Peter Carey accuse Morrison government of abandoning authors

Barack Obama recalls epic battle for healthcare law in excerpt from memoir

Hay festival founder suspended after bullying allegations

Not the Booker prize 2020: watch the judging meeting live

Forward poetry prize goes to ‘audacious, erotically charged’ The Air Year

Lost letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson's mutual affection

Penguin launches project to boost diversity in GCSE reading lists

'She left a strong legacy': children's book tells story of Daphne Caruana Galizia

'We cannot survive': New York's Strand bookstore appeals for help

Free school meals: 200 children's authors condemn government

Library ebook lending surges as UK turns to fiction during lockdown

UK must be 'brave' and prosecute gulf royal accused of sexual assault, says top QC

Gulf royal accused of sexual assault must go, says Hay literature festival

Controversial plans to develop James Joyce house into hostel approved

Michael Rosen to publish book about his near-fatal Covid-19 ordeal

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – review roundup

Kate Summerscale's 'true ghost story' leads Baillie Gifford prize shortlist

TS Eliot prize unveils 'unsettling, captivating' shortlist

Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain's working class, dies aged 74

BBC's The Watch 'shares no DNA with Terry Pratchett's work', says daughter

Revealed: Soviet spies targeted George Orwell during Spanish civil war

On my radar: Russell Tovey's cultural highlights

Runners and writers: who got what in the birthday honours list

Jimmy Barnes: ‘I think it’s criminal the way the government has treated the arts’

Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Roxane Gay champion trans rights in open letter

Neil Gaiman: 'Narnia made me want to write, to do that magic trick'

Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature

Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened

NK Jemisin leads 2020 round of MacArthur 'genius grants'

NK Jemisin leads 2020 round of MacArthur 'genius grants'

Coronavirus: Andrew Cuomo blames Donald Trump for 'worst failure since Pearl Harbor'

'Master' of short story Sarah Hall becomes first to win BBC prize twice

Charges against Tsitsi Dangarembga must be dropped, argue writers

Nobel prize for literature tipped to make safe pick after years of scandal

Unseen spoof by Raymond Chandler shows writer's 'human side'

Akwaeke Emezi shuns Women's prize over request for details of sex as defined 'by law'

Kae Tempest publishes first book since revealing they are non-binary

Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78

Bernardine Evaristo slams literature teaching for bias to 'whiteness and maleness'

Authors hope The Lost Words followup will inspire action and change

Susie Dent 'gutted' after new book Word Perfect printed with host of typos

Steve McQueen and Bernardine Evaristo named among '100 great black Britons'