‘Greenwashing’: the go-to solution of hedge funds and oil companies

This term once meant money laundering on behalf of drug cartels, before it became shorthand for environmental propaganda

Britain has closed almost 800 libraries since 2010, figures show

Annual survey shows sharp cuts to local authority funding have led to the loss of 17% of branches, alongside sharp staff and funding shortfalls

‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win

News presenter alluded to her joint victory with Margaret Atwood but failed to give the name of Girl, Woman, Other’s author

Joe Hammond, author of acclaimed motor neurone disease memoir, dies aged 50

Tributes paid to ‘a deeply original writer who used his own mortality as a lens’ and was still writing days before his death

Bad sex award twosome: prize goes to Didier Decoin and John Harvey

‘Britain’s most dreaded literary prize’ for bad sex in fiction awarded to the novels The Office of Gardens and Ponds and Pax

Evelyn Waugh letters shed light on his abandoned first novel

In correspondence going to auction this week, the writer describes how he burned a manuscript titled The Temple at Thatch

Sir Michael Howard obituary

One of Britain’s greatest military historians hailed for his 1961 masterpiece The Franco-Prussian War

The playful pair who pricked the grim respectability of postwar British culture

Jonathan Miller and Clive James were irreverent public intellectuals who effortlessly demolished the walls between high and low art

The tiger who came to TV: Animated classic tops children’s festive listings

Judith Kerr’s tale is one of three seasonal films based on much-loved childhood books

Oddest book title prize: Dirt Hole Variations beats War on Artisan Cheese

Guide by the late Charles L Dobbins, known as the father of modern trapping, sees off polemical defence of traditional dairies

Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I

Researcher at Lambeth Palace follows ‘usefully messy’ fragment of Roman history to its royal source

Waterstones chooses books of the year ‘for a better, kinder world’

Greta Thunberg’s speeches and surprise hit The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse have together defined 2019, say booksellers

Clive James, writer, broadcaster and TV critic, dies aged 80

James died at his home in Cambridge on Sunday almost 10 years after his first terminal diagnosis

Corbyn: I guarantee libraries will be protected under Labour

Party leader says that cuts-hit service gave him ‘a fantastic start in life and I want that for everybody’

Debut author of Queenie caps success with Costa prize shortlisting

Candice Carty-Williams, who began writing to improve representation of black British characters in fiction, joins 19 other authors contending for prestigious book of the year honour