John Guy tells Hay festival applicants cite author in interviews and says blur between fact and fiction is troubling One of Britain’s most ...

Peter Wohlleben’s book has become bestseller in Germany but he tells Hay festival audience it has annoyed scientists Trees are social creat...

The two novelists are among 200 writers and artists backing Pen International’s three-year plan to promote work by censored and persecuted p...

The inequality of badly-run or corrupt states is boosted by the power of technology – but it’s also easier than ever to destabilise these st...

Archive research of crime fiction magazines has recovered 14 stories that will be collected under the title A Spot of Folly this autumn A c...

Ben Whishaw reprises his role as the marmalade-sandwich-munching bear in the follow-up to the hit 2014 film The first trailer for Paddingto...

Speaking at Hay festival, Conservative peer says government is too focused on ideology as the sole cause of radicalisation The British gove...

Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel rockets to number one on Amazon after Channel 4 begins airing series starring Elisabeth Moss The Handmaid’s Ta...

Speaking at the Hay literary festival, the Irish novelist said modern writers should emulate Jane Austen and stop overdoing the backstory C...

Speaking at Hay festival, writer accuses ‘aggregating news agencies’ of not taking responsibility for their content Stephen Fry has called ...

It was conceived as an excuse to ‘have a few mates round’, but now the Hay literary festival is embracing a much wider vision and is a globa...

Broadcaster tells audience at literary festival that US president had done better than many people expected Jeremy Paxman has said the medi...

Rupi Kaur’s first book, Milk and Honey, sold 1.4 million copieS Ordinarily, the illustration adorning the cover of a new book is not a big s...

Poet and novelist, who described his work as a ‘zoo of wild utterances’, was the winner of the National Book Award and twice shortlisted for...