Reed Elsevier to sell off education arm
11.30am: Publishing group, which takes in titles from Farmers Weekly to the Lancet, is to sell off its underperforming education arm in a move that could raise more than £2bn. By Fiona Walsh.
Students, meet your new tutor: Amis, the enfant terrible, turns professor
To those who seek a career as a writer, Martin Amis has some well chosen words of advice: "Well, it is a sort of sedentary, carpet slippers, self-inspecting, nose-picking, arse-scratching kind of job, just you in your study and there is absolutely no way round that. So, anyone who is in it for worldly gains and razzmatazz I don't think will get very far at all."
Malcolm Bowie
Obituary: Brilliant scholar whose searing eye analysed French literature anew.
Books for pleasure
Roy Hattersley: The school English syllabus should above all aim to instill a sense of the joy of reading.
Want to write a book? Just join the wiki queue
Penguin Books, in collaboration with students at De Montfort University in Leicester, plan to create the world's first 'wiki' novel, concocted online by millions of contributors across the globe.
Historic papers reveal life of Edwardian schoolgirls
Forgotten archives show how young women were groomed in grammar and housewifery.
Cuts threaten services at British Library
· Institution may be forced to introduce charges· Supporters plead with Treasury ahead of review
The mind that makes the body rich
John Mullan: Neuroscientists have discovered that reading Shakespeare is good for the brain. Does that surprise you?
Latin lovers are enjoying a boom
Response: We can no longer dismiss Latin as a dead language. It's in the middle of a real revival, says Will Griffiths.
Panic not, mother
When gap-year travellers email home, they mean to calm the fears of anxious parents. But these glimpses of hair-raising adventures in faraway lands can have the opposite effect - as this selection from Simon Hoggart and Emily Monk's new book shows.
A million fingers are tapping out a challenge to the tyranny of spelling
Simon Jenkins: The texting generation may yet realise George Bernard Shaw's dream of liberating the English language for all of us.
Exam board attacked for approving text message answers
Exam chiefs in Scotland branded 'ridiculous' after admitting answers written in text message language will be acceptable in English tests.
This term, we will be studying Zadie Smith
Time was when A-level students had to wade through Chaucer, Shakespeare or DH Lawrence. Now contemporary authors are an integral part of the syllabus. But who chooses which books become set texts - and why are the publishing houses so interested? John Mullan reports.