Murdered journalist Dom Phillips’ unfinished book to be published in 2025
How to Save the Amazon: Ask the People Who Know will be completed by writers and environmentalists thanks to a grant from the Whiting foundation
Behind Omid Scobie-gate lies an age-old maxim: always blame the translator
When something goes wrong, the finger is often pointed at us. But our work is more crucial than people know, says translator and author Anna Aslanyan
One small slip and Omid Scobie’s Harry and Meghan book goes stratospheric. Imagine his distress
The Sussexes-friendly author swears he never name-checked Charles and Kate. The truth? Look, it’s very hard to nail down, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Publishers launch initiative to highlight Palestinian authors and history
The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’
Free speech groups criticise German ban on Russian journalists’ book
Russian businessman claims book defamed him, while authors say aim is to destroy their reputation
The big idea: should we abolish literary genres?
Categorising fiction may help to sell books, but it says little about how writers write or readers read
Bob Mortimer wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for his ‘mischievous’ debut novel
A pig will be named in honour of The Satsuma Complex, this year’s winner of the award for comic fiction
Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business
The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?
Caroline Gilfillan obituary
Other lives: Poet and writer who explored feminist themes, including with the all-female 1970s band the Stepney Sisters
Publishing associations urge UK government to protect copyrighted works from AI
Statement asks government to help stop AI tools ‘using copyright-protected works with impunity’
How common is plagiarism in the publishing industry?
The shadow chancellor’s new book has come under scrutiny for lifting passages of text from other sources without acknowledgment. Academic writers explore how this can happen
Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book
Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied
Bloomsbury’s fantasy list helps it to record £17.7m first-half profits
Publisher to double dividend after demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon
Penguin Random House launches high schoolers’ award to combat book bans
The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorship
Tim Harland obituary
Other lives: Co-founder of a publishing company that promoted the ideas of permaculture