Forget grooming to Zoom – 18th-century men were first to make up

Restoration influencer: how Charles II's clever mistress set trends ahead of her time

Dark side of wonderland: ahead of V&A show, book explores Alice’s occult link

Olga Tokarczuk's 'magnum opus' finally gets English release – after seven years of translation

Writ in water, preserved in plaster: how Keats' death mask became a collector's item

Canada spy agency unwittingly seeks double agent in Le Carré ad gaffe

Paul McCartney to publish 900-page lyrical 'autobiography'

Key aide said Covid was 'the best thing that ever happened' to Biden, book says

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights bookshop, dies aged 101

Hillary Clinton to publish thriller set in aftermath of US political turmoil

Amos Oz accused of 'sadistic abuse' by daughter in new memoir

The 120 Days of Sodom: France seeks help to buy 'most impure tale ever written'

Dead strange ... in search of Britain’s most unusual tombs

Unfinished manuscripts that lay behind Palestinian critic’s stated contempt for fiction

When Can I Go Back to School? Self-published lockdown story lands major publisher

A joy forever: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

'Look after yourself my darling': letters salvaged from 1941 shipwreck

'Outstanding' Carnegie medal longlist includes three previous winners

Unseen work by Proust announced as ‘thunderclap’ by French publisher

'Quiet, CS Lewis is on': why subject of new film could be right for now

Highwayman's 1750 confessions reveal ‘unusual’ ambivalence about gay sex

'Imperfect messenger' Bill Gates on what needs to change to avoid climate disaster

'A gift for Holocaust deniers': how Polish libel ruling will hit historians

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to publish memoir about her father's death

Monique Roffey leads strong showing for indies on Rathbones Folio shortlist

Oscars release first shortlists for 2021 Academy Awards

Marvel removes antisemitic trope from Immortal Hulk comic

Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter of Cyrano de Bergerac and Belle de Jour, dies aged 89

Naomi Wolf accused of confusing child abuse with gay persecution in Outrages

Reform business rates or risk a high street collapse, say firms

Backlash as Wallace Collection considers closing library to public

Hunter Biden memoir about drug addiction to be published

Waterstones says paying furloughed staff minimum wage 'would not be prudent'

Waterstones says paying furloughed staff minimum wage 'would not be prudent'

Birmingham library brings Shakespeare to life in dozens of languages

National Library of Wales to receive £2.25m rescue package after protests

US magazine Poetry faces outcry for publishing work by sex offender

Fears rise that Polish libel trial could threaten future Holocaust research

Mariah Carey sued by sister Alison for 'emotional distress' arising from memoir

Hal Holbrook, Deep Throat in All the President's Men, dies aged 95

Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction

Laura Jean McKay wins $100,000 Victorian literature prize for The Animals in That Country