James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon
As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters
2,000-year-old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts
The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals
Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen and other creatives urge government
More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’
Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield
Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
Ex-England manager Gareth Southgate to publish new book on leadership
Dear England: Lessons on Leadership, which ‘transcends football’ and offers advice on resilience and performance for individuals and organisations, will come out in October
Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood to publish memoir
The 85-year-old’s Book of Lives promises to lift the lid on her unconventional Canadian upbringing, prize-winning writing career, and the experiences that shaped her work
English writer’s forgotten ‘masterpiece’ predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying’ 1934 novel to be republished
Ian McEwan novel What We Can Know to be published this year
A ‘deeply humane’ work set in 2119 imagines a UK partly submerged by rising tides
DC Comics pull Neil Gaiman title while Amazon Prime series set to go ahead
The Sandman spin-off Death: DC Compact Comics Edition was due to be released later this year
Meet-cute at Mansfield Park: can modern covers turn young readers on to Jane Austen?
New editions of her novels are aimed squarely at the BookTok demographic – but will this make these classics appeal to fans of ‘spicy’ romance?
Joan Didion’s ‘astonishingly intimate’ diary to be published
The author recorded her thoughts on alcoholism, depression and her complex relationship with her daughter Quintana in the book, Notes to John
Publishers sue state of Idaho over library book bans
Lawsuit says its definition of ‘harmful materials’ forbidden to under 18s is ‘vague and overbroad’ and puts librarians at risk
My advice to male writers struggling to get published? Toughen up – and embrace poverty
Don’t give in to moral panic, fellas! Here are some tips from my own bumpy literary journey
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson obituary
Debonair publisher known for his generous book advances whose stable of writers included Peter Ackroyd and Rose Tremain