America’s self-publishing ‘miracle’
John Sutherland: William P Young's 'self-published bestseller', The Shack, has been the 'buzz book' in the US with sales verging on 2m
China sex blogger releases book
After provoking outrage for posting sexual exploits, anonymous Briton decides to reveal identity
Actor plans to film long-lost García Márquez screenplay
Titled Frontera, film was written before the 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude turned author into international literary star
Missing Shakespeare: stolen First Folio surfaces in US
Long wait is over for £15m British literary treasure last seen in 1998
Question time
Emine Saner talks to Julian Clary about the TV world, his career as a novelist - and his burning ambition to play Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night
Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s privacy complaint rejected by PCC
The Press Complaints Commission today rejected a complaint about privacy from Harry Potter author JK Rowling. By Stephen Brook
Celestial clues may end ancient debate about eclipse in Odyssey
Researchers find only one period matches movement of stars and planets described in book
Karachi calling
When novelist Mohammed Hanif told friends he was returning to Pakistan after 12 years in Britain, they were aghast. Why would he and his young family swap London for a city with daily power cuts and rampant gun crime? The answer proved surprisingly simple ...
True crime: stranger than journalism
Murder they wrote: when writers' crime stories catch up with them
Does this spell the end of proper English?
Aida Edemariam: Are we to be overrun, willy-nilly, by American spelling?
In the name of the mothers
The mothers of British soldiers in Iraq live in constant fear of tragic news. Esther Wilson was so appalled by their plight that she wrote a play about them. Jon Henley meets her
Publisher convicted of insulting Turkey
Judge sentences publisher, Ragip Zarakolu, to five months in prison under Turkey's notorious Article 301
Our diet of destruction
In an extract from her new book, Felicity Lawrence investigates the faceless trading giants who really decide what goes on our plates
Big Brother is watching you, George Orwell
A security camera in Barcelona bearing the name of the 1984 author provides a strange commemoration of Orwell's role in the Spanish civil war
Yes! And Tarzan scores for Hungary
Péter Zilahy: I was speechless as I lifted the European championship trophy having beaten Switzerland 6-1 in the final