Roald Dahl's BFG becomes Guid and Freendly in Scots translation

'In stressed times, we can take comfort in wildlife': why nature-writing is 'exploding'

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87

Angola court orders conditional release of jailed activist book club

The Swordfish and the Star by Gavin Knight review – Cornwall’s dark, dangerous side

What we Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy review – the seven edges of knowledge

Game of Thrones: how will Winds of Winter regain the suspense stolen by the show?

Andrew Miller: 'I was trying to leap out of my habitual mind'

Enid Blyton book illustrations through the ages – in pictures

Harry Mount’s Odyssey review – in the wake of Homer’s hero

The books that honour the bloodiest of battles

I’m Not With the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson – review

Has Ann Patchett picked the best 75 books of the past 75 years?

Poets on tour: foreboding at the Welsh border

Emma Stone and Alicia Vikander set for rival Agatha Christie biopics

Locus awards go to Ann Leckie, Naomi Novik and other stars

Locus awards go to Ann Leckie, Naomi Novik and other stars

Locus awards go to Ann Leckie, Naomi Novik and other stars

Dystopian Ukraine novel, written on Facebook during protests, gets English translation

Dystopian Ukraine novel, written on Facebook during protests, gets English translation

Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, dies aged 76

Tristimania by Jay Griffiths; Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon – review

The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell review – heartwarmingly eccentric

Meanwhile, Trees by Mark Waldron review – bizarre and invigorating

Jessie Burton: ‘Success can be as fracturing to your self as failure’

Climbing Days by Dan Richards – review

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging – review

Stand up for the arts in schools, say children’s laureates

Abiola Oni announced as winner of the BAME Short Story prize

In Parenthesis: in praise of the Somme's forgotten poet

Deborah Moggach: 'I try not to look at property porn, but the flesh is weak’

‘I’ll be watching The Mighty Walzer with my head in my hands’

The best new children’s books – reviews roundup

Hisham Matar: 'I don't remember a time when words were not dangerous'

Philip Pullman on the 1,000 causes of Brexit

The Muse by Jessie Burton review – a solid follow-up to The Miniaturist

Flash Friday: 3 Stories of God by Joy Williams

Migration: Ali Smith, David Herd and Wolfgang Bauer listen for the true story – books podcast

Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, dies aged 76

Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present

Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present

Paul Beatty: ‘Slam poetry, TED talks: they’re for short attention spans’

Jonathan Coe wins 'bittersweet' honour from France as UK turns back on Europe

Quentin Blake's unpublished illustrations of The BFG - in pictures

My life before writing: Emma Cline on being a child actor

Poets on tour: 'the UK has been torn in two like a bad poem'

The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – a final farewell to the Long Earth

Kazuo Ishiguro: my turning point? Reading Proust on my sickbed

The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – a final farewell to the Long Earth

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis review – the best writer on the game ever

Poets' tour, part four: in and out with lettuce and lardy bread

Food in books: gravlax on rye from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay review – a clever, time-hopping debut

Stephen King and George RR Martin talk gun control

Stephen King and George RR Martin talk gun control

007 questions: how well do you know the James Bond books? – quiz

Kick-Ass to return as a black woman, announces Mark Millar

Kick-Ass to return as a black woman, announces Mark Millar

Condensed, or just dense? The apps that turn books into 15-minute reads

Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann review – a world of consumers

Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidences by Joseph Mazur – review

Lisa McInerney's 'astounding' debut novel wins Desmond Elliott prize

Lisa McInerney's 'astounding' debut novel wins Desmond Elliott prize

Poets on tour, part three: silence in Oxford, shouting in Chipping Norton

Four times African writers rewrote a western classic and nailed it

Everyone Is Watching review – a panoramic portrait of New York

Unesco lists Exeter Book among 'world's principal cultural artefacts'

Free Speech by Timothy Garton Ash review – coping with the internet as ‘history’s largest sewer’

Quidditch leaves Harry Potter behind as (real) World Cup fever grows

The Natural Way of Things review – a masterpiece of feminist horror

Top 10 books about the Beatles

The Sex Lives of English Women review – turkish delight fantasies and great ‘organisms’

Are you anxious, asks a picture book, then helps me face my answer| Rebecca Slater

Sarah Polley adapting Margaret Atwood crime novel for Netflix series

Translation Tuesday: Next, a poem by Jing Xianghai

David Baddiel wins funniest book for middle grade children

Poets' tour hits Bath: strawberry moon in a honey-dipped city

Covers story: why are there so many new publishing imprints?

Henning Mankell play about colonialism in Africa published in English for first time

Henning Mankell play about colonialism in Africa published in English for first time

From bedroom wall to auction hall: rare Thor comic art goes on sale

From bedroom wall to auction hall: rare Thor comic art goes on sale

Louise O'Neill: 'Readers tell me my book showed them that being raped wasn't their fault'