Leading authors sound alarm over post-Brexit changes to copyright

Philip Pullman and Kate Mosse among writers warning that changes being considered could flood UK with cheap foreign editions and threaten livelihoods

Ian McDiarmid to tour show based on Julian Barnes stories about ageing

Actor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance

Oxford University Press to end centuries of tradition by closing its printing arm

Falling sales blamed as 20 jobs axed in final chapter for history of printing in the city, which stretches back to the earliest days of book publishing

Do Norfolk birds speak Punjabi? Mona Arshi, the poet transcribing bird calls

The lawyer-turned-poet spent a year ‘possessed’ by bird sounds – and found some chirped in her childhood tongue. So what are lapwings and godwits saying?

Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize

Author, who was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption, is hailed by judges as a ‘voice of hope we all need to hear’

Forward poetry prizes shortlist former young people’s laureate Caleb Femi

Poor is in line for the Felix Dennis first collection award, while the contenders for best collection are praised for their ‘limitless’ ambition

MailOnline mocked for suggesting Didsbury is ‘no go’ area for white people

Inclusion of affluent, mainly white Manchester suburb in list of Muslim-dominated towns derided by locals

Jeanette Winterson burns her own books in protest at ‘cosy little blurbs’

British novelist says republished works were presented as ‘wimmins fiction of the worst kind’

Gordon Brown: Boris Johnson’s mistakes could still catch up with him

Exclusive: ex-PM cites example of Margaret Thatcher whose political demise came soon after landslide win

First we were told to stay alert to Covid-19 – how is being ‘vigilant’ different?

If you are ‘vigilant’ you are awake, concentrating – and just a vowel away from becoming a vigilante

‘If publishers become afraid, we’re in trouble’: publishing’s cancel culture debate boils over

Publishing staff, in rows over authors from Mike Pence to Woody Allen, are voicing their reluctance to work on books they deem hateful. But is this really ‘younger refuseniks’, or a much older debate?

David Diop wins International Booker for ‘frightening’ At Night All Blood Is Black

Diop is the first French writer to win the prize for translated fiction – split with his translator Anna Moschovakis – for novel about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in the first world war

Samuel Beckett’s secret wedding in Folkestone inspires festival 60 years on

Writer’s attempts to stay ‘invisible’ while marrying Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil will be explored in monologues by well-known authors and actors

Bloomsbury profits jump as ‘joy of reading rediscovered’ in lockdown

Harry Potter publisher issues third profit upgrade of 2021 after sales increase to £185m

Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time

AuthorSHARE, a royalty fund set up by two used booksellers with support from industry bodies, is calling for more retailers to participate