FTX crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried subject of new book by Michael Lewis

Bestselling writer Lewis has been shadowing Bankman-Fried as the cryptocurrency founder’s company, FTX, failed

Mindfulness books for children are a runaway publishing trend

Industry reports sales of titles for under-10s addressing emotions up almost 40%, driven by demand from young people

One in five children’s books features character of colour – but fiction lags behind

New survey finds steep rise in recent years but presence of minoritised characters is often ‘poorly executed or insignificant’

HarperCollins union workers go on strike over pay ‘for as long as it takes’

Workers at the only ‘big four’ publisher to have a union authorize indefinite strike over low wages and diversity

Swedish author Karin Smirnoff pens new Dragon Tattoo novel

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, out in English next year, picks up from David Lagercrantz in filling out the late author’s vision for a 10-book sequence

The Guardian view on the book publishing industry: no one size fits all

Editorial: The failure of a recent bid to merge two large publishing companies shines a light on a central issue of cultural power

Independent booksellers unimpressed by Prince Harry memoir being sold at half-price

Spare, which is released in January, has been heavily discounted by larger retailers, leaving smaller bookshops unable to compete

US judge blocks $2.2bn Penguin Random House merger

Justice department argued the melding of the publishing house with Simon & Schuster would harm competition and authors’ pay

No journalist had a deeper sense of history than Ian Jack

Endlessly curious and knowledgeable, the Guardian columnist was renowned for his interest in the industrial working class from which he came

Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77

Writer who also edited Independent on Sunday remembered as one of the best in British journalism

Prince Harry’s ‘unflinching’ memoir, Spare, to be published in January

Publishing simultaneously in 16 different languages, the book is billed as ‘full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom’

Book prices set to rise as production costs soar, say UK publishers

Firms aim to minimise rises by using cheaper paper and increasing print runs as raw material and energy cost hikes hit sector

George Orwell’s classic works to be published on Substack

Down and Out in Paris and London will start the project and be delivered to subscribers in ‘coffee break’ segments

Virago founder Carmen Callil remembered by her friend Rachel Cooke: ‘Of course she was difficult’

The Observer writer on the brilliant publisher, a larger-than-life character among whose many talents was an extraordinary capacity for friendship

A Sultry Month changed how I viewed history. It is well that it has been reissued

Faber has blown the dust off Alethea Hayter’s groundbreaking biography of London’s 19th-century literati – not before time