An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT

Authors have entered a war over words with OpenAI for using their books as ‘training’ feedstock

Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government

Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted over

Northern Ireland libraries can no longer afford to buy books

A funding shortfall means the country’s library service will operate with reduced hours, and is ‘unable to purchase new books or take requests at present’

New guidelines urge UK libraries not to avoid controversial books and ideas

‘In [a] polarised world, it is important our sector is clear in its opposition to censorship’ says the Cilip report, published as services increasingly asked to remove books

‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods

Original drawings and paintings from 60s and 70s comics such as Hotspur and Commando will feature in an exhibition in Oxfordshire

The Coco Chanel exhibition had me weak at the knees, but the woman remains an enigma

The fashion designer celebrated at the V&A had an extraordinary talent for reinvention and even those who knew her struggled to convey her essence

A smoking quill? Notes in Bible margin could be handwriting of the Venerable Bede

Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saint

‘I saw how grotesquely unqualified so many of us were’: Rory Stewart on his decade as a Tory MP

When he arrived in 2010, he was surrounded by people who looked like him – and shared some of the same assumptions. Then, as the world changed in unimaginable ways, he watched in horror as the people in charge failed to change with it

In these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down

The sentence was created to make sense of the world, but some things are beyond logic, says writer Michael Rosen

Debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown reignites debate over ghostwritten celebrity books

Publishing figures defend Stranger Things star’s book, Nineteen Steps, after this week’s publication ignites criticism on social media

‘The most fun!’ Paul Simon unveils collaboration with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse illustrator

Charlie Mackesy created his new drawings while listening to Simon’s music, the pair explain at the exhibition launch, with Simon outlining how the Covid-19 pandemic helped his creativity

Big Panda author using proceeds to set up animal sanctuary in Swansea

Exclusive: James Norbury says he is fulfilling pledge made after his debut book landed him a six-figure deal

Agatha Christie statue takes seat on bench in Oxfordshire town

Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 years

‘It’s a sickness’: Chuck D on his new graphic novel and the ‘madness’ of US gun culture

The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his country

Professor Hakim Adi shortlisted for prestigious Wolfson award

The nomination for Adi,the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago