Netflix scraps film version of Alice Sebold book after rape conviction overturned

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo to be president of Royal Society of Literature

Mark Gatiss TV version brings The Amazing Mr Blunden back into print

‘A bit pushed’: Enid Blyton letters reveal strain of work and motherhood

US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools

Roman Abramovich wins first round of libel battle over Putin’s People book

Former Trump adviser claims to ‘expose unvarnished truth’ of Covid in new book

NFT beats cheugy to be Collins Dictionary’s word of the year

Costa prize 2021 shortlists highlight climate anxiety

Tolkien estate blocks ‘JRR Token’ cryptocurrency

Cain’s Jawbone: TikTok helps reissued literary puzzle fly off the shelves

Award-winning American poet Robert Bly dies aged 94

Authors back Sally Rooney’s boycott of an Israeli publisher

Kayleigh McEnany’s book claims don’t stand up to assurances that she didn’t lie

‘It was terrifying’: ancient book’s journey from Irish bog to museum treasure

Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo: Rudyard Kipling’s own sketches of the Jungle Book cast revealed

Japanese anime One Piece to air its 1,000th episode in 80 countries

Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding

National Book awards: Jason Mott wins US literary prize for ‘masterful’ novel Hell of a Book

Paul McCartney’s perfect sandwich revealed during talk about cookbook

Black talent takes centre stage at Lyric Theatre

Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools

Baillie Gifford prize goes to ‘controlled fury’ of Empire of Pain

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk charged again with ‘insulting Turkishness’

John Lewis sued by self-published children’s author over Christmas ad

Bill Nighy to narrate Terry Pratchett’s footnotes in new Discworld recordings

Chris Christie: Trump knows better about election lies – or is just ‘plain nuts’

Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell says male coaches obsessed with weight of female athletes

‘What the hell is an HSC exam?’ Poet Ocean Vuong pokes fun at perplexed Australian students

Isabel Waidner wins Goldsmiths prize for ‘mindbending’ Sterling Karat Gold

Christos Tsiolkas wins $60,000 Melbourne prize for literature

John Agard becomes first poet to win BookTrust lifetime achievement award

‘Delicious caper’ by Jesse Sutanto wins Comedy women in print award

Social media helped me face cancer, says Chocolat author Joanne Harris

‘How do you give up privilege?’: Damon Galgut on his Booker-winning novel

Is Superman Circumcised? favourite to win Oddest book title of the year

Report shows fourfold rise in minority ethnic characters in UK children’s books

Licensed to thrill: Kim Sherwood set to ‘expand the James Bond universe’

Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise

Senegal’s Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins top French literary prize

Paul Newman memoir to be published in 2022, 14 years after star’s death

US justice department suing to block Penguin purchase of Simon & Schuster

‘Chronic’ lack of investment in UK primary school libraries revealed

Alex Gino’s children’s novel George retitled Melissa ‘to respect trans heroine’

Damon Galgut is ‘all the rage’ favourite to win 2021 Booker prize

Jane Austen’s House secures future with funding to restore roof