Camilla tells authors to ‘remain true to calling’ amid Roald Dahl row
Speech during reception for queen consort’s online book club follows backlash against rewrites of Dahl’s books
JK Rowling tells of fear former husband would burn Harry Potter manuscript
Author tells podcast she had to sneak pages of first novel out of house to keep them safe
‘I’m a nepo baby’: Jon Snow on class, sanity and Margaret Thatcher
Two years ago, Snow left Channel 4 News, after anchoring the show for more than three decades. Now he has written a memoir. He discusses boarding school misery, family connections and why Boris Johnson is a chancer
Rishi Sunak joins criticism of changes to Roald Dahl books
No 10 says ‘we shouldn’t gobblefunk’ with words, as Philip Pullman suggests work be left to go out of print
Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive
Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral
Anne Boleyn’s reputation as ‘temptress’ to be recast in new exhibition
Henry VIII’s second wife was a deeply religious woman who resisted his advances for years, according to fresh research
Salman Rushdie is determined to have the last word
The novelist is still recovering from a knife attack last summer, but the loss of an eye won’t stop him writing about it
A US state shelved my book – yet all I was doing was trying to help people live their lives
Taking the Trans Teen Survival Guide off school shelves is part of the historic erasure of books about identity, says author and artist Fox Fisher
When my memoir came out, I got a brutal shock. Vulnerable writers need protection
Nothing prepared me for revisiting my most painful times – then being criticised for it. We need industry-wide guidelines, says journalist Terri White
The Time Traveller’s Wife musical sets a date for London’s West End
With music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Joss Stone, the show based on Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller will open in autumn
Who’s going to be triggered by Northanger Abbey? It’s hardly Game of Thrones
Greenwich University is warning students to prepare themselves for the ‘toxic friendships’ Jane Austen satirises in her novel
OMG! It’s Jane Austen… the TikTok generation embraces new heroine
Two hundred years on, Austen’s take on the pressures of friendship and love is winning over young readers
Who was Beethoven’s mysterious Elise? Historian concludes she never existed
The identity of the muse for Für Elise has long puzzled experts. A new book suggests it was named by someone else, after the composer’s death
‘Medieval institution’: Commonwealth Guardian readers on Prince Harry’s Spare
Comments range from ‘the monarchy is valuable’ to ‘Harry and Meghan are having their cake and eating it’
Jonathan Raban, travel writer and novelist, dies aged 80
The British author, who lived in the US, blended memoir and travelogue in books that were often inspired by the sea