Flipping hell: book designers lament Waterstones’ back-to-front displays

Retailer apologises to artists as branches turn books around to help browsers read blurb

UK creative industries facing £74bn drop in income after lockdown

Report says 400,000 jobs likely to be lost across sectors including music, theatre and art

The Price of Peace by Zachary D Carter review – how liberals betrayed Keynes

A persuasive new biography argues that it was Blair and Clinton who finally ended JM Keynes’s dream of a fairer life for all

Blam! Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger to teach British pupils about money

Bank of England and Beano team up in primary school course on financial literacy

Hollywood studio behind 12 Years a Slave wins rights for ‘real life Lord of the Flies’

New Regency will bring to the screen the true story of six Tongan teenagers who survived for 15 months on a remote Pacific island in the 1960s

Waterstones plans to put its books under a 72-hour quarantine

Boss says books handled by customers will be removed to allow time for virus to die

Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? Thomas Piketty explores the prospect

Economist discusses the effects of pandemic on economies, societies and globalisation

Could lockdown herald an exciting new chapter for the book trade?

While bookshops and publishers struggle to survive the pandemic, some industry leaders sense an opportunity for permanent change

Fatcat developers created our housing crisis. Here’s how to stop them

Housebuilders, armed with foreign cash and backed by top lobbyists, keep property prices high. But author Bob Colenutt has brilliantly exposed the grip they have on Britain

Do we really need a Hunger Games prequel movie?

Don’t look now, but Suzanne Collins’ novel about the early years of Donald Sutherland’s character Coriolanus Snow is heading for the big screen

City Lights devotees give $500,000 to help bookshop survive coronavirus

Iconic San Francisco store that published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl announced on Friday it was in crisis, and quickly drew ‘outpouring of love’ on GoFundMe

Booksellers struggle with lack of new stock amid Covid-19 crisis

Shops forced to shut by coronavirus had been surviving with online sales, but difficulties ordering titles present fresh threat

The young woman and the sea: Lamorna Ash’s adventures on a Cornish trawler

For her debut book Dark, Salt, Clear, the young writer immersed herself in a Cornish fishing community, a life-changing experience that led to one of spring’s most hotly anticipated titles