UK creative industries facing £74bn drop in income after lockdown

Report says 400,000 jobs likely to be lost across sectors including music, theatre and art

Reni Eddo-Lodge becomes first black British author to top UK book charts

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race wins landmark ranking in the wake of worldwide Black Lives Matter protests

National Trust buys romantic landscape of Lorna Doone novel

Nine acres in Exmoor includes buildings, rivers and moorland linked to 19th-century tale

Trans activists write to Sun condemning JK Rowling abuse story

Letter says they disagree with author on gender, but paper’s front page was “abhorrent”

Black Writers’ Guild calls for sweeping change in UK publishing

More than 100 authors join new body calling for the industry to address deep-seated inequalities in output and personnel

I learned what it was to love and leave a place after reading Raymond Williams

The Welsh critic’s 1960 novel Border Country is an intimate history of a working-class family, says Lynsey Hanley, the author of Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide

Martin Lewis: finance guru fighting furlough shaming

If you’ve been made to feel bad about being off work, you need this man in your corner

Fictional portrait of Jo and Edward Hopper wins Walter Scott prize

£25,000 award for the year’s best historical novel goes to Christine Dwyer Hickey’s The Narrow Land, which depicts the artists’ marriage

Aubrey Burl obituary

Archaeologist who wrote extensively on Britain’s stone circles

JK Rowling: UK domestic abuse adviser writes to Sun editor

Interview with author’s first husband unacceptable, says abuse commissioner

JK Rowling row hints at generational rift on transgender rights

Does disagreement in the house of Harry Potter show young people are more supportive of trans equality?

Michael Rosen returns to Twitter after long battle with coronavirus

Beloved author of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt was in intensive care for 47 days, but as his recovery continues he has resumed tweeting

Why is JK Rowling speaking out now on sex and gender debate?

What are implications of Harry Potter author’s detailed essay expressing views on transgender law reform?

Jane Austen museum under threat due to coronavirus

The heritage site where she wrote all her novels says it could be forced to close for ever because all of its operational budget comes from visitors

Black British authors top UK book charts in wake of BLM protests

Bernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge take No 1 slots in wake of anti-racist demonstrations, as Waterstones staff ask chain to support cause