Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes to promote Brexit Britain in 2017

A case of identity: Cumberbatch and Sherlock Holmes author are cousins

‘It’s a miracle’: from begging in Paris to bestselling author

Readers’ books of the year 2016

Simon & Schuster stands by Milo Yiannopoulos book despite backlash

Jane Austen £5 note found in Christmas card in Scottish Borders

'They throw you into a hole': celebrated Turkish novelist reveals detention ordeal

Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos claims lucrative deal struck for autobiography

Wordsworth's last known descendent joins fight against Lake District pylons

James Joyce book's centenary marked with map project

In Hong Kong's book industry, 'everybody is scared'

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Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96

'Only skeletons, not people': diaries shed new light on siege of Leningrad

The Song of Seven by Tonke Dragt review – a playful Dutch classic

JK Rowling reveals she's working on two new novels

Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan's detention 'breaches convention on human rights'

Colin Thubron and Tom Phillips join 2017 Man Booker jury

Ahmed Naji to be freed from jail, but will face court again in January

Wonder Woman writer and artist dropped by DC over 'challenging relationship'

Clean room, no beetles wanted: how a young Kafka hoped to write budget travel guides

Cheaper books would save Australians $25m a year, says Productivity Commission

Public library loans show dramatic fall in last two years

More than 140 authors call on Penguin Random House to reinstate union recognition

'Surreal' trumps 'fascism' as Merriam-Webster's 2016 word of the year

Redundancy fears as Penguin Random House derecognises staff unions

Andreï Makine uses Académie française induction to attack 'ignorant' Hollande

UK's first major Moomins exhibition set to open in London

Isaac Newton masterwork becomes most expensive science book sold

Brexit, YouTuber and Bama among new words in Oxford English Dictionary

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger to be subject of biopic

HMRC changes decision over VAT for adult colouring books

Nassim Nicholas Taleb hits out at Chinese printers’ censorship of his book

To Sir, With Love author ER Braithwaite dies aged 104

'People hope my book will be China's Star Wars': Liu Cixin on China's exploding sci-fi scene

Shirley Hazzard, internationally acclaimed Australian author, dies at 85

Democracy sausage: it's Australia's word of 2016, says national dictionary centre

Suicide Squad director joins Margot Robbie for female DC villains movie

Rare edition of JK Rowling's Beedle the Bard sells for £368,750

Pensioner presents every MP with collection of refugee stories

Library closures 'will double unless immediate action is taken'

Sara Baume's 'irresistible' debut novel wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize

On my radar: Carrie Brownstein’s cultural highlights

‘Nervous’ Patti Smith sings for Bob Dylan at Nobel prize ceremony – video

Bob Dylan Nobel prize speech: this is 'truly beyond words'

Salman Rushdie leads World Human Rights Day protest for Chinese writers

Publishers rush out Trump and Brexit books to traumatised readers

Max Porter's 'joyful linguistic invention' wins him young writer of the year award

Labor defends import protection for Australia's book publishers

Philippe Sands uses book prize to raise £60,000 for charity

Stephen King attacks Bob Dylan's Nobel prize knockers

Hatchimals scheme 'ruins' novelist Sara Gruen and angers Christmas shoppers

School library book returned more than 120 years late – with no fine

Oscar Wilde’s prison cell key goes up for auction

Martin Amis working on novel about Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow and Philip Larkin

Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark sells out after Trump victory

Authors, rock stars and one Doctor Who among artists in illustration auction

Fidel Castro worked on Gabriel García Márquez's manuscripts

Bad Little Children's Books satire pulled following racism accusations

Jailed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji's appeal delayed

To Kill a Mockingbird removed from Virginia schools for racist language

Kafka's sexual terrors were 'absolutely normal', says biographer

First edition of Isaac Newton's Principia set to fetch $1m at auction

Rachel Cooke’s best graphic books of 2016

Amy Schumer set for title role in Barbie movie

Authors stamp new library strategy 'too little, too late'

Publisher apologises for 'sexist' wording on cover of Elena Garro book

Harper Lee's hometown entertains grand plans for Mockingbird tourism

Philip Larkin memorial to join literary greats in Westminster Abbey

Not as good as P&P: Jane Austen mother's verdict on Mansfield Park

Libraries receive £4m fund as part of strategy to secure their future