Rediscovered Terry Pratchett stories to be published

Cost-of-living crisis: one in five parents spend less on books for their children

Stormzy’s #Merky Books launches literature festival to ‘inspire young creatives’

Charity unveils plan to save barn where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne

Roald Dahl threatened publisher with ‘enormous crocodile’ if they changed his words

Adelaide Writers’ Week withdrawals ‘sad’ and ‘unfortunate’, director Louise Adler says

Roald Dahl publisher announces unaltered 16-book ‘classics collection’

Return of the Grinch: sequel to Dr Seuss classic will hit shelves before Christmas

New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros

Camilla tells authors to ‘remain true to calling’ amid Roald Dahl row

Julia Donaldson ends James Patterson’s reign as UK libraries’ most borrowed author

JK Rowling tells of fear former husband would burn Harry Potter manuscript

Ron DeSantis gives Donald Trump kid-glove treatment in new book

Sci fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories

Publisher of Roald Dahl books in French ‘no plans’ for rewrite

Let Roald Dahl books go out of print rather than rewrite them, says Philip Pullman

Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticised as ‘absurd censorship’

Let kids read for fun says new BookTrust writer in residence SF Said

Black British family wins commission to make show for Sky Kids

Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

Nicola Sturgeon’s memoirs attract fevered speculation from publishers

HarperCollins refused appeal in defamation case over claims made in Scientology book

Royal Mint adds Dumbledore coin to Harry Potter-themed collection

Oldest complete Hebrew Bible expected to break auction records

British independent publishers thrive despite Brexit and Covid pandemic

Forensic study finds Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned, says nephew

Anne Boleyn’s reputation as ‘temptress’ to be recast in new exhibition

Mitt Romney to mull Republicans’ ‘slide toward authoritarianism’ in biography

The Time Traveller’s Wife musical sets a date for London’s West End

Barbra Streisand to publish her first memoir

Trump porn star payment a ‘zombie case’ that wouldn’t die, ex-prosecutor says in book

Salman Rushdie says he feels lucky and grateful in first interview since stabbing

Man, 30, completes encyclopedia of animals he started at nine

Prosecutors likened Trump to mob boss and had to prove he wasn’t insane – book

Green light given for huge British Library extension

Melbourne author Jessica Au wins $125,000 for ‘quietly powerful’ novella