Harry Potter publisher says Covid is weaving magic over book sales
After shaky start in lockdown, Bloomsbury sales soar as people pick books over box sets
Hay festival founder suspended after bullying allegations
Peter Florence, the director of the event since its inception, has been signed off pending the outcome of a grievance procedure
Forward poetry prize goes to ‘audacious, erotically charged’ The Air Year
Caroline Bird, whose book was inspired by the first year of a relationship, takes £10,000 honour for best collection alongside awards for Will Harris and Malika Booker
How a canny Kilmarnock grocer took whisky from the glens to the world
Walker family used latest technology and ruthless advertising to head £5bn market, new book reveals
‘Lost’ letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson’s mutual affection
Newly examined correspondence shows deep respect between Peter Pan and Treasure Island authors, who never met
Penguin launches project to boost diversity in GCSE reading lists
Lit in Colour, the publisher’s partnership with the Runnymede Trust, hopes to redress imbalances in English literature courses
Free school meals: 200 children’s authors condemn government
Shirley Hughes and Philip Pullman among signatories of letter decrying lack of provision
Library ebook lending surges as UK turns to fiction during lockdown
Charity says ebooks borrowing up 146% from March to August, with crime thrillers popular
What now for the BBC?
Charles Moore may be out of the picture, but the intensified attacks against the corporation are real, and its chief enemy is the government. It’s time to explode the myths
UK must be ‘brave’ and prosecute gulf royal accused of sexual assault, says top QC
Helena Kennedy says CPS must pursue case against UAE minister accused of assaulting British citizen Caitlin McNamara at Hay Abu Dhabi festival
We’re all in tiers: the meaning behind the latest Covid-19 buzzword
The next hastily bodged system of coronavirus restrictions will probably deal in tranches, now that levels and tiers have been used
Detective who busted John and Yoko lifts the lid on corrupt 1960s policing
Norman Pilcher, who made some of the 1960s’ biggest arrests and was jailed for perjury, says he is setting the record straight
Boris Johnson: The Gambler review – no blame, no shame
Tom Bower gives us a better idea of Boris Johnson’s inner demons but is much too forgiving of his many flaws
Michael Rosen to publish book about his near-fatal Covid-19 ordeal
Beloved children’s author will reflect on illness that put him in intensive care for 47 days using mix of poems and nurses’ ward notes
Peter Pomerantsev’s study of ‘the war against reality’ wins Gordon Burn prize
This Is Not Propaganda ranges across the world in its study of disinformation, and reveals how the author’s parents struggled as Soviet dissidents