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Publishing: Rude bits in disguise

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

According to new research by discount website MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, people have been buying e-readers to disguise the embarrassing books they're reading. The poll of 1,863 e-reader owners found that 58 per cent had acquired the device partly so as to disguise their taste in erotic and/or children's fiction.

Future's not Orange: book prize loses its sponsor

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The Orange Prize for Fiction is looking for a new name and a new sponsor after the communication company announced it was stopping its support for the literary award.

Profits read well at Bloomsbury

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Bloomsbury proved there is life after Harry Potter yesterday as revenues and profits both jumped, with cookery books by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Heston Blumenthal selling strongly.

Carlos Fuentes, author of The Old Gringo, dies at 83

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a critic of governments in Mexico and the US, died yesterday after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.

'Love can overcome brutality': foreign fiction award won by Holocaust novel

Mon, 14 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

An octogenarian Holocaust survivor has won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for a novel loosely based on his experiences during the Second World War in which he escaped from a labour camp.

Free Harry Potter e-books to be offered through Kindle

Thu, 10 May 2012 17:21:48 GMT

Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library.

Maurice Sendak: Dead at 83, the beloved writer who showed children where the wild things were

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, one of the most influential and best-loved children's books of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 83. The writer and illustrator, whose books entranced generations of children, died at a hospital close to his home in Connecticut. He had suffered complications after having a stroke on Friday.

Dead at 83, the beloved writer who showed children where the wild things were

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Young historians 'are damaging academia' in their bid for stardom

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Young history academics are too eager to convert their research into books that have only a slim chance of success in an increasingly crowded market, according to the chief judge of a leading history writing prize.

'Where the Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies aged 83

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:30:15 GMT

Maurice Sendak, the man widely considered to be the most important children’s author of the 20th century, has died aged 83 from complications following a recent stroke.

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, dies aged 83

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:43:15 GMT

Maurice Sendak, the man widely considered to be the most important children’s author of the 20th century, has died aged 83 from complications following a recent stroke.

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, dies at 83

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:53:15 GMT

Maurice Sendak, the man widely considered to be the most important children’s author of the 20th century, has died aged 83 from complications following a recent stroke.

'Where the Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies at 83

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:38:15 GMT

Maurice Sendak, author of the children's book Where the Wild Things Are, has died aged 83, according to a breaking news update from the New York Times.

Trending: Want to dump her? Turn to p56

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Choose Your Own Adventure, the children's gamebooks that allow the reader to determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome, provide the unlikely model for a book about a disastrous relationship.

'Poetry of the Taliban' released by British publishers

Sun, 06 May 2012 07:54:31 GMT

A British publisher has defended its decision to release a collection of poems penned by members of the Taliban.

Editor's doubts on Watergate return to haunt old allies

Tue, 01 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

In a burst of nostalgia for more intriguing times when reporters were heroes and president's were crooks (or one turned out to be anyway), Washington finds itself all of a twitter over the movements, or otherwise, of a potted plant on a reporter's balcony 40 years ago.

Microsoft deal may bring Barnes & Noble's Nook to UK

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Barnes & Noble, the US bookstore chain, stoked speculation about the imminent launch of its Nooke-reader in the UK when it signed a new partnership deal yesterday with Microsoft.

Withering heights: why the Brontës weren't so in touch with nature after all

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Their books and poems – even their paintings – evoke the wild beauty that surrounded them at their remote parsonage home.

Bavaria to print 'unattractive' new edition of Mein Kampf

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Bavaria has announced plans to publish a specially annotated version of Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf in an attempt to prevent neo-Nazis exploiting the book for propaganda purposes when its copyright expires in three years' time.

A novel approach to making blockbuster movies

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The Lucky One, starring Zac Efron and out next week, is not just another Hollywood romance, it's another Hollywood romance from author Nicholas Sparks.

The gift that led Dickens to give up his treasured copy of David Copperfield

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The superstitious nature of Britain's greatest writer has come to light thanks to the sale of an inscribed first edition of Charles Dickens' favourite novel with its own intriguing backstory.

Here's fun for all the family: American Psycho, the musical

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The book was meant to be unfilmable. But more than a decade on from the acclaimed movie adaptation of American Psycho, a theatre company is to go one step further and bring the bloody satire to the British stage; with some musical numbers along the way.

Trending: Shit Girls Say - they took the words right out of my mouth

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Shit Girls Say, the popular Twitter feed and subsequent YouTube video series, has just landed a book deal with Harlequin. Created by two Toronto-based men, Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard, it pokes fun at a number of clichés and verbal mannerisms often associated with young women.

Trending: Shit Girls Say - They took the words right out of my mouth

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Trending: They took the words right out of my mouth

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:01 GMT