Who is Salman Rushdie? Author whose book The Satanic Verses made him a target

The Indian-born writer has been stabbed in New York, and it’s not his first brush with violence

A tsunami of outrage: Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses

The writer had no idea his novel would unleash such anger and become a litmus test of freedom of expression

Salman Rushdie: timeline of the novelist’s career

The critically acclaimed writer rose to fame in 1981 and later received death threats for The Satanic Verses

‘We’ll still be watching in 50 years’: how Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman changed Christmas

When the film version of Briggs’s melancholy masterpiece was first screened in 1982, Britons clutched it to their hearts – where it has stayed ever since

Beware of the Bull: the extraordinary life of singer Jake Thackray revealed

The first biography of the enigmatic poet-songwriter leads a resurgence in popularity for the late northern balladeer whose admirers include Neil Gaiman and Cerys Matthews

Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88

Beloved creator of Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas brought a distinctive strain of melancholy to the genre

Charles Dickens sought house where he would meet a real ghost

Exhibition in London will explore the author’s lifelong fascination with the paranormal

Waterstones hit by ‘nightmare’ stock issues after warehouse system upgrade

Technical difficulties have led to backlog of unfulfilled orders and stock shortages in store for the bookshop chain

My life was turned into a romcom! How our arts writer became the lead character in a new play

Charlotte Higgins was thrilled that her history book about Roman Britain was being adapted for the stage – until she realised it was being reimagined – and she and her partner were the romantic leads

‘Magic bookmark’ revealed as key to augmented reality books

Scientists have revealed their latest work on hardware that can supply the kind of background information, familiar with ebooks, for paper volumes

Why Charlotte Brontë’s tiny £1m pamphlet proves that little things mean a lot

The book of 13 works has returned to her childhood home

Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales

Harry and Meghan biographer Omid Scobie says his sequel ‘will have the world talking’

Finding Freedom author, recently revealed to have been informed by a briefing from a senior aide, promises follow-up boasting ‘deep access’

‘Boris was cartoon gold’: the UK’s top cartoonists on drawing Boris Johnson

Ten leading cartoonists revisit their most memorable sketch of the outgoing PM, and reveal what lies in store for his successor

British ‘idlers’: how a 2012 attack on UK’s work ethic could haunt Liz Truss

Tory leadership frontrunner says she did not write infamous passage in Britannia Unchained, but the book’s whole tone is now jarring