Free food and $100 prizes: Alaskans rally to get challenged classics to students

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Simone de Beauvoir's 'too intimate' novel to be published after 75 years

Portuguese authors collaborate on serial lockdown novel

Apocalyptic vision: the unsettling beauty of lockdown is pure sci-fi

Terry Pratchett novels to get 'absolutely faithful' TV adaptations

Nick Hornby: BBC should be 'untouchable' after coronavirus

Per Olov Enquist, celebrated Swedish author, dies aged 85

Majority of authors 'hear' their characters speak, finds study

William Wordsworth's 250th anniversary marked with mass readings

Show but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mind

Abducted Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee opens Taiwan shop

Sexy beats: How Normal People’s ‘intimacy coordinator’ works

Author of book about victim blaming bombarded with misogynist abuse

No-prorogation justice Lady Hale to publish memoir and guide to the law

Amazon revealed as mystery £250,000 donor to UK bookshops

Malcolm Turnbull's book A Bigger Picture 'a bestseller' days after launch

Britons are reading more in lockdown, says survey for World Book Night

Malcolm Turnbull book publisher has list of 'legion' recipients of unauthorised copies

Women’s prize for fiction shortlist led by Mantel, Evaristo and O'Farrell

LGBTQ children’s books face record calls for bans in US libraries

Philip Pullman: ministers should face charges if Brexit politics slowed PPE

Government officials who allegedly distributed Malcolm Turnbull's book face legal action

‘This is beyond the Great Depression’: will comic books survive coronavirus?

International Booker prize postponed due to coronavirus

Carol Ann Duffy leads British poets creating 'living record' of coronavirus

Letters reveal postnatal crisis of Barbara Hepworth

Morrison's senior adviser accused of pirating Malcolm Turnbull’s unreleased memoir

Inside MinaLima: the fantastic world of Harry Potter prop design

All alone online: Iggy Pop and Jeremy Irons lead mass Ancient Mariner reading

Stars including Paul McCartney and Emilia Clarke to share stories of NHS care in new book

Self-isolate like a king: why Henry VIII is a role model for staying in

Malcolm Turnbull on sex and trust: 'How could I confirm the deputy PM lied to the prime minister?'

Chilean author, campaigner and escapee Luis Sepúlveda dies aged 70 of Covid-19

Chart flop: VisitBritain sorry for literary map ignoring Wales and Scotland

‘Dress rehearsal for catastrophe’: how Stoics are speaking to locked-down readers

Margaret Atwood: Covid-19 lockdown is not a dystopia

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Malcolm Turnbull: News Corp is like a political party with the Murdochs encouraging intolerance

Margaret Atwood to showcase gothic puppet show for Mary Beard

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Yayoi Kusama's message to Covid-19: 'Disappear from this earth'

Oxford dictionary revised to record linguistic impact of Covid-19

Many Italian bookshops to remain closed despite easing of lockdown

City Lights devotees give $500,000 to help bookshop survive coronavirus

Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence

Stella prize 2020: watch the $50,000 literary award announcement here

Where now for travel? Lonely Planet closures point to an uncertain future

Poem constructed from emails received during quarantine goes viral

Chinese writer faces online backlash over Wuhan lockdown diary

‘Weird tale’ by Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered

Mrs Hinch cleans up with book sales as Britons tidy homes in lockdown

Government rejects bid to turn Oscar Wilde’s prison into an arts centre

'Biography' of Nineteen Eighty-Four leads Orwell prize longlist

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The original Lydia? Portrait discovery delights Jane Austen museum

French writers' coronavirus getaways prompt backlash

Larry David comes out in support of Woody Allen after reading memoir

Jacqueline Wilson reveals publicly that she is gay

Stay in your cave: the Gruffalo lends a claw to the coronavirus effort

Booksellers struggle with lack of new stock amid Covid-19 crisis

International Booker prize shortlist led by 28-year-old’s debut

Dolly Parton pledges $1m to coronavirus vaccine research

Discovery of letters shines light on Thomas Hardy's second marriage

A-listers lend talents to bedtime story initiative during Covid lockdown

Edinburgh's August festivals cancelled due to coronavirus