Crime Writers’ Association appoints Vaseem Khan as its first non-white chair

Bloomsbury reports sales surge as people buy books as ‘affordable diversion’

Librarians sue Arkansas state over law banning them from giving ‘obscene’ books to children

‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society

Using psychedelics for depression is exciting area, says ex-vaccines chief

Nobel literature prize fell into my life ‘like a bomb’, says Annie Ernaux

Rebecca F Kuang rejects idea authors should not write about other races

Elizabeth I heavily influenced by loss of mother Anne Boleyn at young age

DeSantis appears to back woman who led Amanda Gorman poem school ban

James M Cain: lost story by ‘poet of the tabloid murder’ discovered in Congress library

Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links

Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour

The Enormous Crocodile among latest Roald Dahl books to be adapted for stage

Rishi Sunak reveals his favourite Jilly Cooper novels on This Morning

Kenneth Anger, underground film-maker and Hollywood Babylon author, dies aged 96

Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem

Long story: book returned to California library nearly a century late

Caffè Nero launches major book awards

‘Significantly shocking’: debut author Debra Dank breaks records at NSW premier’s literary awards

‘Stylist extraordinaire’: worlds of literature and politics pay tribute to Martin Amis

Nobel winners demand release of Belarusian peace laureate Ales Bialiatski

Pete Brown, countercultural poet, singer and Cream lyricist, dies aged 82

Salman Rushdie uses first public appearance since stabbing to praise 'heroes' who saved him – video

Bloomsbury admits using AI-generated artwork for Sarah J Maas novel

Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit story originated in African folktales, expert argues

Ancient Hebrew Bible sells for $38m in New York auction

Florida school district sued for violating first amendment rights with book bans

Johnny Cash lyrics to be collected in book for first time

Naomi Klein investigates ‘conspiracy theory culture’ that has shaken her life

Author resigns from PEN America board amid row over Russian writers panel

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be subject of ‘high-octane’ book by Michael Lewis

US supreme court pursuing rightwing agenda via ‘shadow docket’, book says

Mem Fox book Guess What? banned in Florida county under Ron DeSantis bill

Rishi Sunak ‘ranks racy Jilly Cooper novel among his favourite books’

Elena Ferrante and Marian Keyes among authors competing in Eurovision book contest

Sorry, Swifties: BTS revealed as authors of mystery book that intrigued the internet

Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’

Tabby McTat: Jodie Whittaker to narrate animated film based on Julia Donaldson’s beloved book

Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize for collection of postcolonial poetry

Martin Luther King’s famous criticism of Malcolm X ‘just not true’, author finds

The Taylor Swift effect: why a mystery book is rocketing up US charts – despite no one knowing anything about it

Hawley slams Andrew Tate for ‘locker room talk’ – but doesn’t mention Trump

GB News censured after Naomi Wolf compared Covid jab to mass murder

Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned

Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, says pair bonded over media intrusion

Pulitzer 2023 winners include Hernan Diaz, New York Times and AP

Illustrated children’s biography of King Charles hits No 1 on UK book chart

Gabrielle Carey, co-author of Puberty Blues, dies aged 64

Texas school district scraps James and the Giant Peach trips over cross-gender casting

French minister’s steamy novel turns up heat on Macron