Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time

Daughter of writer Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren killed in car crash

His fair lady: how George Bernard Shaw’s wife played a vital role in his masterworks

‘I wanted young people to see my journey’: Obama to Rashford on Zoom

Children’s authors on Eric Carle: ‘He created readers as voracious as that caterpillar’

First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian era ‘spares no blushes’

Eric Carle, author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, dies at 91

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour

Emily Brontë’s handwritten poems are highlight of ‘lost library’ auction

Timothée Chalamet to play Willy Wonka in origins movie

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Ed Miliband: I was 50 when I finally mastered the art of riding a bike

Michael Rosen condemns ‘loathsome and antisemitic’ manipulated image

Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award for Lost Children Archive

Indian authors speak out over plan to reissue Narendra Modi exam book

Kentaro Miura, creator of bestselling manga Berserk, dies aged 54

‘Madman … racist, sexist pig’: new book details Obama’s real thoughts on Trump

Final John le Carré novel, Silverview, to be published in October

Republic of Consciousness prize shares £20,000 pot between longlist

Hilary Mantel and JK Rowling add lots to auction for global vaccine rollout

Cancelled Philip Roth biography picked up by new publisher amid abuse allegations

Want to try Jane Austen’s favourite cheese toastie? Now you can

The secret of how Amundsen beat Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin

Who’s missing? Top author stirs anger with ‘too white’ history

John Burningham’s final picture book is poignant tale of ‘difficult’ dog’s last trip

Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Raven Leilani wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘fearless’ novel Luster

Tintin heirs lose legal battle over artist’s Edward Hopper mashups

Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand’s Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week

The Butchers: novel set in Irish BSE crisis wins Ondaatje prize

‘Dracula’s castle’ offers tourists Covid shots

Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine

Unseen lockets reveal grief that haunted Charles Dickens’s writing

‘It feels radical about women’: Nancy Mitford hits BBC One’s Sunday night slot

‘Tory quarrels and betrayals’ determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier

Meghan’s first book for children explores ‘bond between father and son’

‘He’s got a wee spring in his step’: 92-year-old grandfather becomes bestselling poet

‘I’m bursting with fiction’: Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic

‘Silenced’ voice of Great War poet to be heard for first time

A drop of hope: new poetry exhibition celebrates power of Covid vaccine

How Holbein left clever clue in portrait to identify Henry VIII’s queen

A real Line of Duty: the London police officer who ‘went bent’

Salman Rushdie and Bernardine Evaristo on shortlist for more diverse exam texts