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Children read more challenging books in lockdowns, data reveals

Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees

DisneyMustPay: authors form task force to fight for missing payments

Florence Welch to adapt The Great Gatsby for Broadway musical

Phosphorescence: Julia Baird’s bestseller wins book of the year

Publisher cancels Philip Roth biography after sexual abuse claims against Blake Bailey

Thousands of supporters join staff at Mike Pence’s publisher in campaign against book deal

UK book sales soared in 2020 despite pandemic

Frances McDormand wins best actress Oscar for Nomadland

Nomadland wins best picture Oscar as Chloé Zhao makes history with best director win

Chinese Don Quixote is translated into Spanish after 100 years

International Booker prize shortlist led by books ‘pushing the boundaries’ of fiction

Rausings targeted in protest against Berlin bookshop eviction

Covid lockdowns lead to £1.1bn loss at UK events firm Informa

‘A true work of art’: Evie Wyld wins $50,000 Stella prize for The Bass Rock

Madoff Talks: uncovering what the family of the late Wall Street fraudster knew

Publisher halts Philip Roth book amid sexual abuse claims against biographer

Book sales jump a third in first week of bookshops reopening in England and Wales

Monte Hellman, cult director and Reservoir Dogs executive producer, dies aged 91

Mike Pence’s publisher refuses to cancel memoir after staff protest

Jane Austen’s tea drinking not under ‘interrogation’, says museum

‘A surge of hope’: public helps create poem celebrating coming of spring

Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title over trans comments

Annie Mac leaves BBC Radio 1 after 17 years

David Hare pens furious poem about Boris Johnson’s handling of pandemic

Michaela Coel debuts as an author with Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

‘Semi-literate’: writers in bitter row over Bob Dylan books

In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover

Poet laureate Simon Armitage publishes elegy for Prince Philip

Simon & Schuster refuses to distribute book by officer who shot Breonna Taylor

Ted Cruz threatens to burn John Boehner’s book over criticisms

Rathbones Folio prize paid £30,000 to scammers posing as the winner

Leeds Playhouse marks 50 years with dramas rolling back the decades

Children’s laureates campaign for £100m a year to fix primary school libraries

‘Epoch-making’ paper on importance of handwashing goes to auction

Mother of all book deals: Mike Pence signs seven-figure deal for memoirs

Granta names world’s best young Spanish-language writers

Women’s prize condemns online attack on trans nominee Torrey Peters

Jordan Peterson ‘shocked’ by Captain America villain espousing ‘10 rules for life’

‘This is not an easy treasure hunt’: puzzle book offers readers chance to win €750,000 golden casket

Trump’s obsession with Deep State conspiracy 'delusional', John Boehner says

Dave Grohl to publish memoir, The Storyteller

Sharp rise in parents seeking to ban anti-racist books in US schools

Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years

John le Carré, chronicler of Englishness, died Irish, son reveals