From the Gruffalo to Dog Man: how to put children’s classics on the stage
With Dog Man making his London theatre debut next summer, theatre makers explain how to make a successful jump from page to stage
Digested week: Book lauds Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest. Ridicule ensues
Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner Dickens
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
Dreamers review – deep sense of empathy powers emotionally vivid refugees’ drama
A traumatised Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Britain meets a kindred spirit in Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s evocative tale
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether
£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds
The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration
Hugh Nowell obituary
Other lives: Co-founder and head of Grosvenor Books, a Christian publishing company
Ncuti Gatwa leads star winners at first Speakies awards for audio storytelling
The actor won best performance for BBC drama Gatsby in Harlem at the inaugural British Audio awards, while Nicola Coughlan’s narration of Juno Dawson’s Queen B clinched best sci-fi audiobook
Sally Rooney says UK prisoners linked to Palestine Action face ‘shocking mistreatment’
Exclusive: author urges ministers to engage with those on hunger strike, who want better conditions, bail and lifting of ban
David Nicholls to adapt The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ for BBC
One Day author leading writing team bringing one of the best-known literary creations of the 1980s to life
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
Hilary Mantel story imagining Margaret Thatcher’s assassination to be staged in Liverpool
Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister’s death, considers ‘what happens when people feel they don’t have a voice’ says director John Young
Should I care what Sarah Jessica Parker thinks about books?
She swept all before her at the Booker prize ceremony, but I’m running out of patience with celebrity influence in publishing, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes