Louis de Bernières reveals 'extreme cruelty' he suffered at prep school

Game of Thrones stage show coming to Broadway and West End

Sharon Stone: cosmetic surgeon enlarged my breasts without consent

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o nominated as author and translator in first for International Booker

Captain Underpants author withdraws book over 'passive racism'

George RR Martin signs five-year, eight-figure deal for more HBO projects

Italians defend Dante from claims he was 'light years' behind Shakespeare

How Mary Wortley Montagu's bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner

Writers in culture war over rules of the imagination

Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo writing memoir about 'never giving up'

Beverly Cleary, beloved children's author, dies aged 104

Lonesome Dove author and Brokeback Mountain screenwriter Larry McMurtry dies at 84

Howl: illuminating draft of Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem found

Rafe Spall to star in West End premiere of To Kill a Mockingbird