Rediscovered Terry Pratchett stories to be published

Twenty stories written under a pseudonym and never before attributed to Pratchett, who died in 2015, will be released this year by Transworld

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

Survey of more than 3,000 parents across Great Britain found 40% are struggling financially, with parents increasingly relying on school libraries

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

The grime star said he was ‘proud’ to offer the two-day event headlined by Wretch 32, John Agard and Malorie Blackman

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

Robert Burns Ellisland Trust proposes to turn Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway into visitor attraction

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

Conversation with Francis Bacon emerges amid the row over updating controversial language in the children’s author’s books

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

Adler defends ‘courageous spaces to air opposing views’ as major sponsor and three Ukrainian writers pull out over comments from other invited authors

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

Series will be released alongside controversially amended versions to leave readers ‘free to choose which version they prefer’

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

How the Grinch Lost Christmas! will take place one year on and see the green grouch try to prove he has grown to love the festive season

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

Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released, and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery

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

Speech during reception for queen consort’s online book club follows backlash against rewrites of Dahl’s books

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

Data from British libraries show that Patterson’s 14-year run as overall favourite has given way to the Gruffalo author

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

Author tells podcast she had to sneak pages of first novel out of house to keep them safe

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

The Florida governor, considered to be a possible contender for the 2024 presidential race, is conciliatory toward the former president

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

Founding editor says 500 pitches rejected this month and their ‘authors’ banned, as influencers promote ‘get rich quick’ schemes

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

Gallimard says it will not be following English example and making any changes to the texts

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

Amid row over editing of language deemed offensive, Pullman says people should read the ‘wonderful authors who are writing today’

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

Author Salman Rushdie among those angry after some passages relating to weight, gender, mental health and race were rewritten

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

The British Muslim author thinks no adult should belittle a child’s choice of reading and looks forward to a ‘representative ecology’ in UK children’s publishing

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Black British family wins commission to make show for Sky Kids

Ama’s Story based on Deluola family, who impressed producers with their self-published books and cartoon

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Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompa’s are gender neutral

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Nicola Sturgeon’s memoirs attract fevered speculation from publishers

The departing Scottish first minister has already said she plans to write about her time in office, and publishers are showing keen interest

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

High court decision relates to previous judgment on allegations of controversial psychiatric treatments at Sydney’s Chelmsford private hospital

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Royal Mint adds Dumbledore coin to Harry Potter-themed collection

Coin available to buy as part of 25th anniversary collection is first in series to feature King Charles

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Oldest complete Hebrew Bible expected to break auction records

Ninth-century Codex Sassoon, critical link between Dead Sea scrolls and today’s Bible, will have estimate of $30m-$50m

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British independent publishers thrive despite Brexit and Covid pandemic

Small press of the year award shortlists 48 presses that are ‘reaping the rewards from inspirational publishing’, says British book awards chair of judges

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

The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup

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

Henry VIII’s second wife was a deeply religious woman who resisted his advances for years, according to fresh research

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

Biographer of Utah senator and former presidential nominee ‘astonished by his level of candor’ in cooperating with new book

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

With music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Joss Stone, the show based on Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller will open in autumn

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Barbra Streisand to publish her first memoir

In ‘one of the greatest tales of the creative life ever told’, the singer, actor and director recounts her life and 60-year career, in which she won scores of awards, many times as the first woman to do so

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

Mark Pomerantz writes of frustration of attempt to make hush money to Stormy Daniels a money-laundering case

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

Author, 75, who was attacked in August 2022 in upstate New York, stresses importance of US giving asylum to exiled writers

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

Josh Gabbatiss began survey of all living creatures more than two decades ago with corals, worms and jellyfish

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

Mark Pomerantz, who was on New York team investigating tax affairs, reportedly compares ex-president to John Gotti

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Green light given for huge British Library extension

Community-focused £500m scheme will build new galleries, a learning centre, green spaces and a home for the Alan Turing Institute of data science

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

Five of the eight winners at this year’s Victorian premier’s literary awards are debuts, with Au winning two categories for her second book, Cold Enough for Snow

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