The Essex Serpent beats Harry Potter to win Waterstones book of the year

Gun that almost killed Arthur Rimbaud sells for €435,000 at Paris auction

Bad sex award goes to Italian novelist Erri De Luca's genital 'ballet dancers'

Prize copy of Wisden withheld from disgraced cricketer up for auction

The best SF and fantasy books of 2016

Woman on the Edge of Time, 40 years on: 'Hope is the engine for imagining utopia'

Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy to script Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta film

Oxford literary festival agrees to pay authors, ending 'work for nothing' row

Prayer book that may have been Henry VIII's could fetch £2.5m at auction

Canadian literary world divides over sex charges against novelist

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie slams BBC 'ambush' with Trump supporter

Julian Barnes: letting US authors compete for Booker prize is 'daft'

Time to write women back into parliamentary history – Rachel Reeves

PG Wodehouse secures redemption as British Library acquires priceless archive

John Bird slams absence of library funding in autumn statement

Essay collection about race in Britain named readers' book of 2016

Finnish feminist fantasy to be made into movie by Film4

Unseen HG Wells ghost story published for first time

Jane Austen 'inspiration' receives £7.6m funding in autumn statement

Handwritten Anne Frank poem sells at auction for £119,000

Atwood and Martel among Canadian writers drawn into row over creative writing tutor's sacking

First trailer released for Martin Scorsese's Oscar contender Silence

Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writers

'It's like they were selling heroin to schoolkids': censorship hits booksellers at Kuwait book fair

Tom Hiddleston and Ben Wheatley to reunite for Frank Miller adaptation

Amber Heard sued for $10m over 'conspiracy' in London Fields promotion

Irish writer William Trevor dies aged 88

Unique copy of first full-length audio book found in Canada

Royal Society's young people's prize goes to 'well cool' pop-up book

Tintin drawing sells for record €1.55m in Paris auction

'Something will crack': supposed prophecy of Donald Trump goes viral

Chair of BAME prize slams UK publishers after lack of submissions

Germany buys California home where writer Thomas Mann lived in exile

Kickstarter for Mike Diana film raises enough to clear arrest warrant

Alex Wheatle wins 2016 Guardian children's fiction prize

Rep John Lewis tells National Book awards how he was refused entry to library because he was black

Poets' unlikely love letters are turned into critically acclaimed film

Blue Peter star beats top authors to Bad sex award nomination

Literal interpretation of Bible 'helps increase church attendance'

Dictionary of 50,000 surnames and their origins published

Curious George loses his home: the world's only store will be closed down

Hundreds of US children's authors sign pledge to tackle racism and xenophobia

Philippe Sands wins the 2016 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction

'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries

Arrival lands in top spot at UK box office, but no space for American Pastoral

Off to a flying start: Quidditch Premier League launched in UK

Margaret Atwood writes letter of solidarity to imprisoned Turkish novelist

Children's laureates demand UK government investigate school library closures

The Power review – a shocking gender war

Ted Chiang, the science fiction genius behind Arrival

Tennessee mother calls for removal of school history book 'promoting Islamic propaganda'

Michaela McGuire will be new artistic director of Sydney Writers' festival

Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize for books that 'break the mould'

Prime Minister's Literary awards 2016: Lisa Gorton and Charlotte Wood share fiction prize

Authors called David more likely to be on bestseller lists than BAME writers

The Accountant adds up to a big deal at the UK box office

Harry and Beatrix Potter face off on eclectic Waterstones book of the year shortlist

Naomi Klein attacks free-market philosophy in Q&A climate change debate – video

Cinderella as masochist, Red Riding Hood as trickster: new book resurrects 'troubling' fairytales

Manuscript reveals Flaubert's messy search for perfection

Naomi Klein at the Great Barrier Reef: what have we left for our children? – video

The Guardian view on Westworld: science fiction’s fresh look at the present | Editorial

It’s all for love as Spain’s Barbara Cartland finally gets a chance to woo British readers

Hitchcock experts rush to defend director over Tippi Hedren’s claims of sexual harassment

Leading authors join protest march against cuts to cultural services

2016 Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation – the winners

Authors join national protest against library closures

Author Leïla Slimani urges Moroccans to rebel against 'medieval' laws

Jane Eyre facsimile manuscript to be published for 'Brontë bibliophiles'

Anne Frank poem, handwritten for a friend, goes on sale

JK Rowling's hand-drawn Tales of Beedle the Bard go up for auction

Wonder Woman trailer shows her deflecting bullets and vowing to save the world

London Library books taken in 1950s found in locked wardrobe

New Trainspotting sequel trailer released

Brexit named word of the year, ahead of Trumpism and hygge

Wole Soyinka says he will tear up his green card if Trump wins

UAE launches new law to 'make reading a daily habit'

Johnny Depp to co-star in JK Rowling's Fantastic Beasts sequel

The Power by Naomi Alderman review – if girls ruled the world

Haruki Murakami cautions against excluding outsiders

Zayn Malik: 'When I look back, I see how ill I was'