Shares in educational publisher Pearson slump as Apollo pulls out

The company, which was on a steady recovery path, was biggest faller on FTSE 100 on Wednesday

Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough review – bent Britain at your service

This unmissable history traces Britain’s cynical transition over 70 years from imperial power to kleptocrats’ best friend

Market value increases by nearly £1bn as Apollo considers improved cash offer after £6.4bn deal rejected

Libel claim against Financial Times writer Tom Burgis had been brought to court in London by ENRC

Sale of 143-year-old family-owned business marks a further concentration of the industry

Containers full of books at the bottom of the ocean are just one problem for an industry facing a host of shortages

Catamaran boatbuilder, Atlantic sailor and adventurer with an unconventional family life

Waterstones seen as potential buyer after 143-year-old chain ditches plan to become employee-owned

A container collapse in the mid-Atlantic earlier this month sank copies of Mason Hereford’s Turkey and the Wolf and Melissa Clark’s Dinner in One

Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley and the best of Capitol Hill and wants to help. His aims are ambitious, his book necessary

Booming appetites for crime, sci-fi and romance drive fiction sales 20% higher than in 2019, with Richard Osman the year’s bestselling author

Investigative reporter Patrick Radden Keefe will give money from business book of the year shortlisting to charity over involvement of McKinsey firm

Fay Evans alleges a ‘striking similarity’ between the 2019 Excitable Edgar TV campaign and her 2017 book Fred the Fire-Sneezing Dragon

Other lives: Publisher and bookseller who became Penguin retail director and president of the Booksellers Association

Titles such as Tom Kerridge’s latest cookbook prove popular for Bloomsbury during Covid pandemic