Pandemic drives ebook and audiobook sales by UK publishers to all-time high
Printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school closures
Virginia Woolf statue fundraiser flooded with donations after Wollstonecraft controversy
Campaign to fund statue by sculptor Laury Dizengremel of the author in Richmond receives thousands of pounds after naked Wollstonecraft statue divides public
Barack Obama to take part in 2020 Booker prize ceremony
US president to speak about reading Booker novels at the online ceremony, two days after his memoir is published
British woman accusing senior UAE royal of sexual assault to fight on
Caitlin McNamara says she will appeal the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to pursue Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan for the alleged attack in Abu Dhabi
‘A literary masterpiece’: M John Harrison wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again wins the £10,000 prize for ‘fiction that breaks the mould’
Children’s books eight times as likely to feature animal main characters as BAME people
According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017
Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be ‘honoured’ with his schlong out?
Was a tiny, silver, ripped nude really the correct way to honour ‘the mother of feminism’? Admirers like me never expected to be left contemplating whether she had a full bush
Rare stolen books, including works by Newton and Galileo, returned to owners
Books worth more than £2.5m found in Romania after Mission Impossible-style theft
England’s bookshops should be classed as essential, booksellers argue
Booksellers Association appeals to government to reopen England’s bookshops in second lockdown, as supermarkets and newsagents allowed to keep selling books
Literary puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years
British comedy writer John Finnemore has solved Cain’s Jawbone, a murder mystery that has 32m possible combinations
Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years
‘Mother of feminism’ commemorated by Maggi Hambling sculpture in north London
Lockdown named word of the year by Collins Dictionary
Collins records a 6,000% increase in usage of the word since 2019, with TikToker and Megxit ranking among mostly coronavirus-related terms
Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights
Director wrote to Boris Pasternak in late 1950s, previously unpublished material reveals
Lockdown 2: it’s back, with more self-improvement guilt than ever before
For those of us who didn’t get fit, bake bread, or read Proust last time round, the fear of failing yet again is mounting, says Eleanor Margolis, a columnist for the i newspaper
‘Don’t read Clockwork Orange – it’s a foul farrago,’ wrote Burgess
The great novelist saw himself as a poet, and newly found stanzas show him berating his own bestseller in verse