Exploration of transhumanism movement wins Wellcome book prize

Cambridge University lays bare the secrets of its library tower

Mosul library recreated in Norfolk country house installation

JS Mill scribbles reveal he was far from a chilly Victorian intellectual

Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering

Reni Eddo-Lodge polemic tops poll of most influential books by women

Nobel prize in literature may be cancelled in 2018 amid sex scandal

Waterstones bookshops bought by investment firm Elliott Advisors

George RR Martin: a new Game of Thrones book is coming …

James Comey's political memoir beats rivals at bookstores

Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur'an manuscript

Ibrahim Nasrallah wins Arabic fiction prize with novel of dystopian extremists

PEN America launches Online Harassment Field Manual

Quick Reads adult literacy scheme to close following funding cut

Virago to publish two new collections by Ballet Shoes author Noel Streatfeild

Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake and Jacqueline Wilson join Authors4Oceans

EL James v Margaret Atwood? The search for America's best-loved novel is on

Women's prize for fiction shortlist favours new voices over big hitters

Lost Anthony Burgess essays reveal his hidden inspirations

Good Night Stories for Rebel ... Boys? Male versions of bestseller arrive on shelves

Peter Nicholls obituary

Broadway producers of To Kill a Mockingbird countersue Harper Lee's estate

Somali-British poet Momtaza Mehri named young people's laureate for London

Arts industry report asks: where are all the working-class people?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman dies aged 86

Public fights, resignations and a sex scandal: what's going on with the Nobel prize?

Swedish Academy chief quits amid sexual abuse scandal

Feminist fiction drives big money at London book fair

Iraqi Frankenstein story shortlisted for Man Booker international prize

Boy Who Came Back From Heaven author sues book's Christian publisher

Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day to be adapted for the stage

Family mounts legal challenge to Northamptonshire library cuts

The best recent science fiction and fantasy novels – reviews roundup

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's remains rediscovered in wine cellar

Alexis Wright wins Stella prize for 'majestic' biography of Tracker Tilmouth

Man Booker festival: Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel among lineup

Kilburn's Tricycle relaunches as Kiln theatre with Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Thirteen Reasons Why tops most challenged books list, amid rising complaints to US libraries

The Fall of Gondolin, 'new' JRR Tolkien book, to be published in 2018

Junot Díaz reveals he was raped as a child in New Yorker essay

Concrete Dreams: new show celebrates Southbank's history of performance

Nobel prize judges quit over handling of sexual misconduct allegations

Rebus: Rankin's gritty Scottish detective to make stage debut

History of soul beats Billy Bragg and Cosey Fanni Tutti for music book of the year

Pee and pesticides: Thoreau's Walden Pond in trouble, warn scientists

Foyles points to higher business rates and shop flood for poor 2017

Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon return to Hogwarts for new Harry Potter game

Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel top poll of best UK and Irish authors

Neil Gaiman to produce Gormenghast adaptation for TV

Man Booker prize reverses nationality decision on Taiwanese author

Author Anita Shreve dies aged 71

Italian bookseller avoids jail after theft of rare Harry Potter book

No Kyding: eminent Shakespeare scholar seeks publisher