Laura Bush memoir claims president was poisoned at G8 summit

Former first lady's book floats idea of poison plot against George Bush and entourage at 2008 Heiligendamm summit

Tintin’s adventures in Congo goes on trial in Belgium

Tintin in the Congo is racist, ignorant and offensive, Congolese campaigner tells Belgian court

Leading historians are to take part in a project that aims to counter Holocaust deniers

Robert Service: Orlando Figes's secretive rubbishing of my work, and his subsequent legal threats, are disgraceful

Author and activist Bill McKibben says planet should be renamed 'Eaarth' to reflect environmental changes caused by humans

Open thread: Penguin Australia has had to pulp a cookbook because of an embarrassing printing error. Would never happen here, of course

007's licence to thrill suspended as MGM awaits a buyer

Editorial: Last week Herman van Rompuy published a whole volume of poetry, in itself a surprise

Tash Aw's novel, set in south-east Asia in the 1960s, is written with great pace and affection for his subjects, writes Sholto Byrnes

Tim Adams is moved by a painful tale of postwar Sierra Leone

The Arctic's future is vital to the human race, as a clutch of new books suggests, says Robin McKie

Michael McGhee: Face to Faith: What is it to believe in God? It may seem odd, but it's not a matter of believing there is a God

Humean philosopher and atheist who ultimately came to believe in intelligent design

Amazon gets permission to open Canadian distribution centre

Secretive star deemed to have outsmarted notorious biographer Kitty Kelley