Tuck Everlasting author Natalie Babbitt dies at 84

Rachel Dolezal memoir to explore 'discrimination while living as black'

Holbein the '16th-century Hebdo': artist's woodcuts are dangerous political satire

On the train, gone, or with a tattoo: what happens to all those 'Girls' in book titles?

Erotic stories by Anaïs Nin consigned to Amazon's adult content 'dungeon'

The best recent science fiction and fantasy novels – reviews roundup

Israeli writer apologises for sexual harassment of journalist

Stephen King pens children's picture book about train that comes alive

Some libraries deserve to close, says 'digital inclusion' charity

Watch 52,000 books reshelved in two minutes at New York public library – timelapse video

YouTube stars the Sidemen are frontrunners in race for books Christmas No 1

Ice Cube to star as Fagin in new Oliver Twist film

Paul Beatty overcome by emotion as he wins Man Booker prize – video

David Cameron signs deal to write autobiography

Paul Beatty wins Man Booker prize 2016

Paddington Bear to star in TV cook show in new Michael Bond book

Nominations for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals 2017 announced

Gruffalo gets gallus makeover in Glaswegian translation

Man Booker prize 2016: bookies' and public's favourites revealed

Peter Jackson to produce film based on Mortal Engines books

Walsall council seeks to close all but one of its 16 libraries

Folio prize 2017 widens scope to judge fiction alongside non-fiction

Tom Hayden, 1960s anti-war activist, dies at 76

Comic book artist Steve Dillon dies aged 54

Dutch to share their dark masterpiece, 70 years on

Shirley Jackson: the US queen of gothic horror claims her literary crown

The truth about boys and books: they read less – and skip pages

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers review – an AI on the run

Wonder Woman announced as UN ambassador amid staff protest

Marlon James calls for action on diversity instead of just talk

Gods and monsters: the Bible gets a comic book makeover

Schoolgirls with autism share experiences in young adult novel

Marvel pulls Iron Man cover after accusations of 'sexualising' teenage girl

Bob Dylan unacknowledges his Nobel prize win

Literary award offers $100,000 for books which have yet to be written

Beyond the Moomins: Tove Jansson's art gets first UK exhibition

Bruce Springsteen confirms Harry Potter producers rejected his ballad

#TrumpBookReport: great literature reimagined as a tweet from the Donald

Forward prize winner Vahni Capildeo shortlisted for TS Eliot poetry award

Guardian children's fiction prize 2016 shortlist announced

Colin Firth to float into Mary Poppins sequel

Willy Wonka big screen reboot is in the works

Gun with which Verlaine shot Rimbaud up for auction

Most UK authors' annual incomes still well below minimum wage, survey shows

JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth love story to be published next year

Leonardo DiCaprio looking to star in real life tale of Jim Crow south

William Hill announces its 2016 Sports Book of the Year award shortlist

The Girl on the Train still UK's top ticket as Bridget Jones's Baby makes history

Hugh Grant to star in Paddington sequel as a vain acting legend past his prime

Don DeLillo's White Noise to be adapted for film

New comics laureate Charlie Adlard declares war on 'the graphic novel'

Cautionary book for kids: why keeping a lion in the bedroom is problematic

Prime Minister’s Literary awards: novel with print run of 350 makes shortlist

India's comic-book superheroine trains her powers on acid attacks

First-hand reporting dominates Baillie Gifford shortlist

Irvine Welsh adapting bestselling novel Crime for television

Angry young women return – wiser and happier in midlife

Margaret Atwood: ‘All dystopias are telling you is to make sure you’ve got a lot of canned goods and a gun’

JK Rowling unveils plans for five-part Fantastic Beasts franchise

Tintin v Asterix: titans go head-to-head in comic festival showdown

Eat Pray Love pizzeria comes to London

House of Lords attacks the government over library closures

As Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote stalls again, Disney plans rival movie

Sjón is Future Library's next recruit to become a 22nd-century author

Margaret Atwood selects Tutul for Pen writer of courage award

Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize for literature – video report

US debut writer wins gold dagger at UK's top crime writing awards

Wonder Woman named UN girls' empowerment ambassador

Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Dayton peace prize for The Sympathizer

Unseen documents revealed on new website dedicated to TS Eliot

Salvador Dalí's surreal cookbook set to be Christmas bestseller

Jim Broadbent writes graphic novel inspired by Bruegel

Publishing risks 'becoming irrelevant', warns Penguin Random House boss

Nursery tales enchant a new generation as publishers rediscover old-fashioned values

A bigger splash: 35kg book of David Hockney’s artworks costs £1,750

David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize

Paul McVeigh wins the Polari prize for debut LGBT writing

Naomi Alderman, Lauren Beukes and Alastair Reynolds on women in scifi – books podcast

Creepy clown craze speads to Britain

Competition watchdog to investigate planned sci-fi publisher takeover

Jackie Kay announces makar's tour of all the Scottish islands

Vietnam, slavery and racism tackled on NBA nonfiction shortlist

Colson Whitehead leads National Book Awards fiction shortlist

Stephen King tells US to 'cool the clown hysteria' after wave of sightings

Odes to roads, sausages and other English icons penned for National Poetry Day

'Don’t ask what’s wrong with the reader, what's wrong with the books?': writing for readers with dyslexia

Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run races to top of book charts

Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams to star in adaptation of Naomi Alderman's Disobedience

BBC national short story award goes to KJ Orr

Gloria Naylor, award-winning novelist, dies aged 66

'Science will never know it all': Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood and others predict the future

Faleeha Hassan, the 'Iraqi Maya Angelou', on living as a refugee in the US – video

'Stop the siege of Elena Ferrante,' says publisher amid unmasking row

Hitler speeches published with Donald Trump as cover illustration

Dennis the Menace to get CGI makeover for new series on CBBC

Arundhati Roy announces second novel after 20-year gap

Poet Caleb Femi named first young people's laureate for London

Thomas Becket's personal book of psalms 'found in Cambridge library'