‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better
Feedback on the benefits of displaying pictures on wards, now gathered in a new book, is backed by scientific studies
‘She was the only genius I ever met’: Wolf Hall director on making latest instalment without Hilary Mantel
Peter Kosminsky hails novelist behind tale of dark arts in court of Henry VIII as it returns to TV screens after 10 years
Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions
The authors are among 1,000 books industry figures pledging not to work with any publishers, festivals or publications ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’
Joy and pain, struggle and achievement – who best tells the story of Black lives?
We asked a group of Black Britons, some famous, some not: who do you most revere as a chronicler of the Black journey, in Britain and abroad?
Bernardine Evaristo offers her Kent cottage to writers for free retreats
Low-income writers and those without space to work will be prioritised under the RSL’s new Scriptorium awards, with 10 people a year allowed to stay for up to a month
Sales of Boris Johnson’s memoir slump by 62% in second week
Former prime minister’s heavily promoted book, Unleashed, just hung on to No 1 bestseller spot in UK
Richard Woodman obituary
Writer who drew on his own experience at sea in a series of novels and historical works about the British merchant navy
British Academy to pay tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah at live event
Poetry in protest event on 30 October will showcase how political change can be explored through verse
Paddington Bear given UK passport by Home Office
Government issues specimen document to Peruvian-born character, listing him as ‘Bear’ under its observations
‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles
Keira Knightley is latest star to publish a children’s book, but some say trend pushes aside genuine writers and makes it harder to find great children’s fiction
‘It was to make bank managers less uptight’: the toy that put Newton’s law on executive desks
The eccentric British design firm behind Ballrace, the bestselling shiny 1970s Newton’s cradle, is celebrated in a new book
What the Dickens is Robert Jenrick trying to tell us?
The Tory leadership contender’s assertion that the last book he read was A Tale of Two Cities is open to several interpretations
K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory
After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success
Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overdue
Poetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in 1916
Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK
World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear power