Waterstones acquires Blackwell’s, the UK’s biggest independent bookseller

Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch among donations to museum

Obscure poetry collection’s sales soar after TikToker dreams about it

Margaret Atwood joins writers condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine

William Barr uses new book to outline case against Trump White House run

Toni Morrison novel The Bluest Eye off banned list in St Louis schools

Unseen JRR Tolkien paintings, photographs and video clips released

‘A symbol of new beginning’: Mosul’s university library reopens

Britney Spears lands ‘record-breaking’ book deal for tell-all memoir

Harold Pinter’s perfectionism included ice-cream sales, letter shows

Jan Pieńkowski, illustrator of Meg and Mog books, dies at 85

Diaghilev and me: Ballets Russes star’s diaries reveal how the maestro was also a monster

Author Joanne Harris turns down US book deal over censoring of ‘f-bomb’

George RR Martin to team up with Marvel for new comic book series