Matilda musical movie starring Emma Thompson to open London film festival

Dakota Johnson: making Fifty Shades of Grey was ‘psychotic’, ‘crazy’ and ‘always a battle’

Philip Pullman leads outcry after Sheffield Hallam withdraws English lit degree

Frank Moorhouse, Australian author and essayist, dies aged 83

Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem

Digested week: the joy of missing out on Glastonbury, and why moaning works

Miles Franklin 2022: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

The small town with a big potato that inspired a global poetry win

‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson

4thWrite short story prize seeks best new writers of colour

Malorie Blackman’s ‘dynamic imaginary worlds’ win her the PEN Pinter prize

Ukraine restricts Russian books and music in latest step of ‘derussification’

Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing

‘Trust breached’: publisher distances herself from author John Hughes amid plagiarism claims

Jon Snow set to return in Game of Thrones sequel series – reports

Danica Novgorodoff wins Kate Greenaway medal for graphic novel Long Way Down

Ireland marks Bloomsday with play about Ulysses obscenity trial

James Patterson apologizes for saying white male authors face ‘racism’

Ruth Ozeki’s ‘complete joy’ of a novel wins Women’s prize for fiction

Parts of John Hughes’ novel The Dogs copied from The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury reports record sales amid reading boom

Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo

‘Surreal fable’ by Derek Jarman to be published for the first time

Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years

Miles Franklin prize removes novel from longlist after author apologises for plagiarism

Shakespeare First Folio copy estimated to fetch $2.5m in New York auction

Unseen works by ‘queen of gothic fiction’ Shirley Jackson published

Murdering the competition: Richard Osman thriller tops UK library loans

‘Unflinching’ debut written ‘for something to do’ during lockdown wins top book prize

Miles Franklin-nominated novelist apologises for plagiarising Nobel laureate ‘without realising’

Kushner wrote memoir instead of pushing Trump to concede, book says

‘Biden blood only’: Hunter Biden’s ex-wife describes Secret Service exclusion

Cressida Cowell renews call for £100m investment in primary school libraries

Praise be: unburnable copy of The Handmaid’s Tale fetches $130,000

Sally Rooney novels reset expectations of Ireland, says TV director

Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity

Racism in English education should be seen as safeguarding issue, says author

Unfaithful, too striking... why William Morris’s wife was painted out of the Arts and Crafts movement

How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood

Bernardine Evaristo fears publishers may lose interest in black authors

The Queen’s successors will not be able to create her ‘mystic’, says writer

Elif Shafak: there’s a scream building up in young people

Author with British citizenship barred from flight home to UK

First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned