Hervé Le Tellier wins Prix Goncourt as France's books world begins to reopen

Lost species day: celebrities to champion threatened wildlife

Johnson urged to extend public's right to roam over English countryside

Royal Society of Literature reveals historic changes to improve diversity

The photo is the clue: Arthur Conan Doyle’s love for his Lost World hero

A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins oddest book title of the year

Audible adjusts terms after row over ‘easy exchanges’ that cut royalties

Mads Mikkelsen confirmed as Johnny Depp's replacement in Fantastic Beasts 3

Romance novelists raise $400,000 for Georgia Senate races – with help from Stacey Abrams

PRH owner Bertelsmann to buy Simon & Schuster in $2bn deal

Staff at Jordan Peterson's publisher protest new book plans

British Library apologises for linking Ted Hughes to slave trade

Costa book awards: Susanna Clarke nominated for second novel after 16-year wait

Beatles biography One Two Three Four wins Baillie Gifford prize

Charles Darwin's notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge University

OED says 2020 has too many potential words of the year to name just one

Arts world dismayed at fate of London home of Rimbaud and Verlaine

'It is never about him': how Marcus Rashford became such a devastating activist

Alan Rickman's 27 volumes of diaries to be published as one book

Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors

Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94

Blue plaque for anti-slavery campaigner Ottobah Cugoano

Douglas Stuart wins Booker prize for debut Shuggie Bain

Star Wars author appeals to Disney in fight over royalties

Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021

National Book Awards: Charles Yu and Malcolm X biography take top prizes

Obama’s A Promised Land on track to become best selling presidential memoir

The Dice Man author George Cockcroft (aka Luke Rhinehart) dies aged 87

Quentin Tarantino to write novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Boris the Menace? Beano to publish first comic for grownups

Obama hails arrival of a more 'caring government' as memoir launches – video

Rashford launches book club so 'every child' can experience 'escapism'

Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions may finally be published, after five-decade wait

French authors offer to pay bookshops' Covid lockdown fines

Publisher ends relationship with Pete Evans after chef posts neo-Nazi symbol on social media

Will Dutch library ban on 'Black Pete' books spell end for 'racist' Christmas tradition?

Pandemic drives ebook and audiobook sales by UK publishers to all-time high

'Treasure trove' of unseen Hughes and Heaney writing found

Virginia Woolf statue fundraiser flooded with donations after Wollstonecraft controversy

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – review roundup

Joe Biden advised against Osama bin Laden raid, Barack Obama writes

Obama memoir confronts 'racial anxiety' Trump stoked with birther lie

Barack Obama to take part in 2020 Booker prize ceremony

British woman accusing senior UAE royal of sexual assault to fight on

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie voted Women's prize 'winner of winners'

'A literary masterpiece': M John Harrison wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction

'A literary masterpiece': M John Harrison wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction

Has Donald Trump already landed a $100m book and TV deal?

Mads Mikkelsen lined up to replace Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts 3

Children's books eight times as likely to feature animal main characters than BAME people

England's bookshops should be classed as essential, booksellers argue

Rare stolen books, including works by Newton and Galileo, returned to owners

Literary puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years

Lockdown named word of the year by Collins Dictionary

Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights

‘Don’t read Clockwork Orange – it’s a foul farrago,’ wrote Burgess

Helen Garner: 'Feminism came like a bombshell into my life'

Hugh Laurie to star as Maurice, Terry Pratchett's streetwise tomcat

Hundreds of authors join signing initiative to support local bookshops

Richell prize 2020: Aisling Smith wins $10,000 emerging writers award for 'evocative' novel

Neurodivergent author Camilla Pang’s Explaining Humans wins Royal Society prize

Stanfords travel bookshop launches crowdfunding project as it fights for survival

Black-owned bookshops call for more diversity in UK publishing

'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon

Viral humour: spoof Peter and Jane make sense of the pandemic