Apology over Dutch book that claimed to identify Anne Frank’s betrayer

Recipe for disaster: first runs of two new cookbooks lost at sea

‘More than wonderful’ … Gaza bookshop to reopen after unexpectedly successful global campaign

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’

Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index

Official biography of Terry Pratchett to be published

James Bond books dedicated to Paul Gallico among star lots at library auction

Donna Barba Higuera wins top US children’s book award for The Last Cuentista

Alan Cumming to play Robert Burns in solo dance-theatre show

Colm Tóibín is named new Irish fiction laureate in ‘exciting time to be a reader in Ireland’

Jodorowsky animated Dune in development, says crypto group

The shrimp returns: beloved flamenco singer Camarón stars in graphic novel

Eighty years late: groundbreaking work on slave economy is finally published in UK

Rare photo of Charles Dickens sporting ‘glorious’ moustache goes on show

Story inspired by near miss with Fred West wins the Portico prize

From student law to Steinem: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library up for auction

Kate Clanchy ‘parts company’ with publisher after discrimination row

Centenary recording of Ulysses to be read by Eddie Izzard, Margaret Atwood and others

Ian McEwan’s ‘most epic book to date’ to be published in September

Experts express doubt that Anne Frank was betrayed by a Jewish notary

Government pauses plans to rewrite UK copyright laws after authors protest

UK children pick ‘anxiety’ as their word of 2021

Trans activists will not be charged over picture of JK Rowling’s home

Anne Frank may have been betrayed by Jewish notary

Robert Burns letters reveal poet was advised not to write in Scots dialect

‘Me against the world’: why superheroes are so often orphans

Deborah Levy: I used writing as therapy to help me talk again after jailing of my father

Republican school bill mocked for claim Frederick Douglass debated Lincoln

Amitav Ghosh: European colonialism helped create a planet in crisis

UK book sales in 2021 highest in a decade

Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on a US quarter

Joelle Taylor wins TS Eliot poetry prize for ‘blazing’ C+nto & Othered Poems

‘Insurrection’ named the American Dialect Society’s word of 2021

PEN prize-winning Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija illegally detained and tortured

Trinity College Dublin begins €90m project to relocate vulnerable books

New chapter of hope: indie bookshops defy the odds to hit nine-year UK high

1921 Census of England and Wales reveals nation reeling from war

Literary mystery may finally be solved as man arrested for allegedly stealing unpublished books

Nobel winner Pablo Neruda was almost denied prize because of odes to Stalin

Norman Mailer has not been ‘cancelled’, his son insists

Caleb Azumah Nelson wins Costa first novel award for Open Water

Rare first edition of The Incredible Hulk comic sells for $490,000

Author says memoir of communist Albania met with ‘vicious’ abuse

London teacher wins praise for children’s book about pandemic

UK’s first black bookshop weighs move to new site after £50k raised to save it