Only a third of books translated into English last year were by female writers. As Women in Translation month wraps up, we investigate why –...

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Matt Furie, whose ‘peaceful frog-dude’ has been co-opted as a far-right meme, has stopped distribution of book that lawyers say espouses Isl...

PEN Center USA’s young adult prize has withdrawn its shortlisting of Stealing Indians after a number of authors cast doubt on the writer’s b...

Children’s publisher to revise wording in Growing Up for Boys after backlash on social media and Amazon Usborne publishing has apologised a...

Personal inscriptions from Winston Churchill, Orson Welles and AA Milne in the actor and avid reader’s library are expected to sell for more...

Research by historian Dennis Spragg suggests that the Lancaster bombers often blamed were 90 minutes too early The death of Glenn Miller ha...

British actor steps down from his role in the upcoming comic adaptation in response to debate over white actor playing an Asian character D...

In the 35 years since he died, the sci-fi writer’s probing of the nature of reality seems ever more prescient. Ahead of a Blade Runner seque...

In a publishing first, Paul Russell uses his own experience to bring the disease out of the shadows for young readers From the earliest fai...

While Thronies await The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in the A Song of Fire and Ice saga, the Cushing Library at Texas A&M University...

Brexit legal challenger to write book about struggles in her work and personal life, as well as ‘offering guidance and confidence to women i...

Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are staging a three-day series of events to mark their collaborative return after 23 years – and they’ve alrea...

In an excerpt from the former presidential candidate’s forthcoming memoir, she describes sharing a stage with Donald Trump ‘looming’ behind ...