Feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four approved by Orwell’s estate

American writer Sandra Newman’s novel Julia will tell the dystopian story from the perspective of Winston Smith’s lover

Julia Donaldson reveals tussle over opening couplet of Superworm

Author backed down over publisher’s concerns about potentially embarrassing misinterpretations

Let him be: how McCartney saved roadie from arrest after Beatles final concert

Diaries of band’s road manager, Mal Evans, revealing chaos at gig to feature in major biography

US author to give away £10,000 prize cash over role of sponsor in opioid crisis

Investigative reporter Patrick Radden Keefe will give money from business book of the year shortlisting to charity over involvement of McKinsey firm

Marcus Rashford to publish children’s novel The Breakfast Club Adventures

The footballer and campaigner is writing story with Alex Falase-Koya, drawing on his own memories of friendships made before starting the school day

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo to be president of Royal Society of Literature

Author best known for Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other will be first writer of colour in position

Author Preti Taneja on realising she had taught the Fishmongers’ Hall attacker: ‘We were all unsafe’

It was the day after the London Bridge atrocity that the writer discovered she knew the man responsible. Two years later, she reflects on that time and the fallout that followed

Mark Gatiss TV version brings The Amazing Mr Blunden back into print

Classic children’s ghost story, long in demand as a secondhand book, will receive its first reprint for more than 30 years thanks to the star actor – and a dogged book editor

Roman Abramovich wins first round of libel battle over Putin’s People book

UK judge rules some passages convey a defamatory meaning, including claim Putin told him to buy Chelsea

Costa prize 2021 shortlists highlight climate anxiety

Jessie Greengrass’s novel The High House, set in a flood-devastated Suffolk was one of several of the nominees to focus on global heating, said judges

Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo: Rudyard Kipling’s own sketches of the Jungle Book cast revealed

Until recently, drawings made to help shape the characters could only be seen in the British Library. Now they will feature in a new edition

Planned Virginia Woolf statue challenged as insensitive

Memorial to novelist would be by Thames, which would evoke her suicide by drowning

Paul McCartney’s perfect sandwich revealed during talk about cookbook

Musician was talking to comedian Romesh Ranganathan about Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen

Black talent takes centre stage at Lyric Hammersmith theatre

Festival to celebrate black culture and creativity, with Lemn Sissay and Shingai as headline acts

Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools

Eton and Harrow among those whose ‘character-building’ qualities were admired by German educators in 1930s and 1940s