Tasmanian author, whose novel The Clinking explores themes of extinction, snaps up award for Australian writers who have not yet published a...

So much 'gobblefunk' The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary offers readers the chance to peruse all of Roald Dahl’s incredible langua...

Aggressive previews strategy allows The Boss Baby to hold off Beauty and the Beast in the family-film arena, while good weather kills off mo...

British Library to put on display Austen’s notes of what friends, family and correspondents thought of her third novel Many novelists st...

Literary editor and author of bestselling books including Edie: An American Girl is believed to have killed herself Literary editor and auth...

11th-century documents from Genizah store in Old Cairo synagogue cover whole range of human life, co-curator says 11th-century documents fro...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: EW book review The Potter series has always stretched the imagination, but a narrative mind is charme...

JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series, speaks to the press at the opening gala of the new play Harry Potter and the Cursed ...

Fleming, Tolkien and CS Lewis are the authors that people most claim – falsely – to have read. But why? And how does this year’s most-fibbed...

Greetings from Freehold, New Jersey, where Bruce Springsteen greeted the faithful as he promoted his new autobiography at a Barnes and Noble...