From Mossad agent to spy novelist: undercover life inspires hit thriller
As one of his fiction bestsellers makes UK debut, Mishka Ben-David reveals how a secret operation can go badly wrong
How to accept a Nobel prize with style
Stuart Heritage: Peter Higgs and Alice Munro were both very cool about their Nobels this week – but no one has combined embarrassment and boredom to such great effect as Doris Lessing
Nicole Kidman gets hitched to The Silent Wife
Actor picks up option on bestselling novel by ASA Harrison, who died before publication, with a view to star and produce
Daniel Radcliffe says Harry Potter cameo in Fantastic Beasts not ruled out
Wizarding schoolboy's appearance in JK Rowling film based on Potter textbook not likely, but not impossible
Alexander Payne set to film Ruth Prawer Jhabvala story
US director to follow Nebraska with The Judge's Will, by late Merchant Ivory scriptwriter
Why do we expect so much from Bridget Jones?
Hadley Freeman: Helen Fielding's heroine is back in Mad About the Boy – but remember, she's still just a fictional character
Russian court bans Qur’an translation
Edition of the holy book joins 2,000 publications banned over the last decade, as city of Novorossiysk blacklists an "extremist" Russian version. It isn't unusual to see extremism laws used against minority groups, but how far will Russia go?
What is France for? Standing up to Amazon
Fiachra Gibbons: French deputies have voted to stop aggressive online discounting to save bookshops. What a positive 'non'
Nobel prize predictions: Higgs offers headache over division by three
Bob Dylan for literature prize? The physics committee has a much bigger dilemma over rewarding the Higgs boson discovery
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikötter – review
Detailed it may be, but Frank Dikötter's critique of the early years of Chinese communist rule is relentlessly partial, writes Isabel Hilton
The Rosamunde Pilcher trail: why German tourists flock to Cornwall
Lena Jakat: Each year, a quarter of a million Germans come to Cornwall, lured by the books of a British author largely unknown in her own country – and the gorgeous locations in German TV adaptations of her work
Romney family cookbook dishes on Ann and Mitt’s early days
Mitt's goose may have been cooked in the 2012 election, but now he's back and whipping up meat loaf cakes with the whole clan
French MPs pass bill to curb Amazon’s discounting on books
Deputies vote for move to protect small booksellers and defend France's culture against market forces and big internet firms
German publishing sensation haunted by riddle of vanished author
Republication of Ernst Haffner's 1932 novel Blutsbrüder (Blood Brothers) focuses attention on mystery of its writer's fate