Theakston's Crime award goes to mainstream first novel
July 18: Crime novel panel breaks the wall between genre and mainstream fiction by rewarding Costa winner Stef Penny
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New writing success for Salman Rushdie July 18: The bookshop trestle table clearly ain't big enough for both of the authors claiming a book signing record Salman Rushdie: My signing rate is bigger than yours |
Kay Ryan named US poet laureate
July 17: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets
The end of the hoax
The week in books: The art of exposure; 50 outstanding translations; Franzen hits back
Jenni's tale, and the trouble with fish
Critical eye: Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter | America America | The Last Fish Tale
Clare Wigfall wins BBC National Short Story award
July 16: The Numbers, an eerie tale of a remote Scottish island, has added £15,000 to Wigfall's bank balance
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher wins Samuel Johnson prize
July 15: Kate Summerscale's book, suffused with melodrama, murder, suspense and courtroom drama, takes the £30,000 non-fiction award
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Audio: Why she won
Audio: 'I feel completely dazed and amazed'
'Nobody knew it existed'
July 15: A Mexican actor plans to film Frontera, a long-lost Gabriel García Márquez screenplay
Obituary: Chingiz Aitmatov
July 15: A Kyrgyz writer, his books were translated into 150 languages
Letters cast a new light on famous lesbian affair
July 13: Bitchy pen portraits and moving tributes found in unpublished Bloomsbury Group correspondence
Racy tales of a fictional First Lady cause red faces in the real-life White House
July 13: Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld's eagerly awaited novel called American Wife gets mixed reviews
Missing Shakespeare: stolen First Folio surfaces in US
July 12: Long wait is over for £15m British literary treasure last seen in 1998
Majority of children's authors against age guidance
July 11: New survey reveals depth of opposition to plans just as first titles indicating suitable ages begin to hit the shelves
Rushdie's Midnight's Children crowned best of the Bookers
July 11: Public vote names Midnight's Children the best novel to have won the Booker in 40 years
Majority of children's authors against age guidance
July 11: New survey reveals depth of opposition to plans just as first titles indicating suitable ages begin to hit the shelves
Publishers give new pledge on age banding
July 9: The Publishers' Association has pledged that there is "no question of age guidance being added to a book without full consultation with the author"
End of a Kafkaesque nightmare
July 9: Previously unseen documents and personal belongings of the writer Franz Kafka, which were hoarded for 40 years in a Tel Aviv flat by executor's secretary, may soon be revealed
Obituary: Thomas Disch
July 9: American science fiction writer whose strange, dark worlds mixed horror and wit
Letter: Thomas Disch
Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize
Jul 8: The South African writer won the award for the best short story in English by an African writer with Poison, a haunting vignette of the 'new' South Africa
Obituary: William Buchan
Jul 8: Writer faced with a mixed inheritance as John Buchan's son
Jhumpa Lahiri jumps the shortlist
July 5: The Frank O'Connor award judges have dispensed with a shortlist, announcing that Jhumpa Lahiri has won the world's richest honour for a short story collection
Field narrows in race for richest story award
Jul 4: Adam Thorpe and Jane Gardam head the shortlist for the National Short Story prize, the world's richest single story award, announced earlier today
JK Rowling says no to age banding on children's books
Jul 3: Potter author has joined the growing revolt against publishers' plans to brand children's books with "appropriate" age bands
US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller
Jul 3: Collection of stories written by inner-city teenagers and collated by teacher is banned by school authorities due to swearing
The Presence wins a Welsh book award
Jul 2: Dannie Abse's memoir of his 50-year marriage, written after his wife Joan died in a car crash, took the prize for a Welsh author writing in English
Harry Potter 'deluxe' first editions auctioned for £17,800
Jul 1: Hectic bidding from around the world this afternoon saw a Berkshire auction house sell a complete set of Harry Potter first editions
Lalwani takes award, but gives away prize
Jun 27: Nikita Lalwani's Gifted wins Desmond Elliott prize, and donates £10,000 winnings to Liberty
Award-winning book illustrator reveals her secret: rat pee
Jun 27: Artist used rodents' urine to discolour pages of book about phobic mouse
Medals for books of myth and mice
Gallery: Emily Gravett
Harry Potter author JK Rowling's privacy complaint rejected by PCC
Jun 26: The Press Complaints Commission today rejected a complaint about privacy from Harry Potter author JK Rowling
Obituary: Eliot Asinof
Jun 26: Author best known for Eight Men Out, about the 1919 baseball scam
Austen's Emma charms record catch at auction
Jun 25: A rare first edition of Jane Austen's novel fetched a record-breaking £180,000 at auction yesterday
Rebus creator turns government inspector
Jun 24: Bestselling writer Ian Rankin to join Labour commission on child literacy
Obituary: Elinor Lyon
Jun 24: Author of rollicking postwar children's adventure stories
Islamic scholar voted world's No 1 thinker
June 23: Editor of magazine which organised survey says Fethullah Gulen's supporters 'made a mockery' of the poll
Blackwell's to launch 'clicks and bricks' book retailing
June 20: Book chain to pilot print-on-demand outlets while retaining culture of in-store browsing
Chick lit author on Dream Street with literary prize
June 19: Lisa Jewell wins top prize at awards set up to rebrand chick lit and bolster its literary credentials
Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winners
June 19: Literary talent both new and old lined up to receive prizes - and cheques totalling £70,000 - from the Society of Authors last night.
Harry Potter breaks 400m in sales
June 18: JK Rowling's tales of boy wizardry pass sales landmark, but still trail Bible
Persaud's blatant cribs were flabbergasting, professor tells tribunal
June 18: Expert's work had been cut-and-pasted and 'tinkered with a bit to fit the style of the rest of the book'
Climate change warning takes Royal Society award
June 17: Mark Lynas's grim exploration of the implications of global warming has won Britain's most prestigious prize for science writing
Richard and Judy's summer book club unveiled
June 16: The pair announce their eight reading selections for their last ever terrestrial TV book club
Connery 'exclusive' headlines Edinburgh festival
June 12: Launch of Sir Sean Connery's memoirs to top bill at 2008's Edinburgh book festival
Debut novelist beats Roth, Pynchon and Atwood to Impac prize
June 12: Lebanese author Rawi Hage, writing in his third language, wins the €100,000 Impac Dublin literary award for his novel De Niro's Game
Booker-nominated writer begins hunger strike
June 11: Indra Sinha, author of Animal's People, has begun a hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the neglect of Bhopal disaster survivors
Potter prequel earns £25,000 for PEN and dyslexia
June 11: A Harry Potter prequel written on an A5 card has sold for £25,000 at an auction to benefit English PEN and Dyslexia Action
Austen's lost love: Miniature could fetch £50,000
June 10: Author painted tiny watercolour after brief but highly charged dalliance with law student Tom Lefroy
Blog: The Real Mr Darcy. Not
Free books for children for a second year
June 10: The government is to support two nationwide programmes giving children free books for a second year, stepping up its funding to £4m
Crime writer inspires Britain's first sponsored police car
June 10: Brighton & Hove police receive a five-door saloon as a 'thank you' from bestselling local writer Peter James
Independent publishers take three translation prizes
June 9: Portuguese and German translations from small imprints honoured in international literary awards
Publisher sues over broken Mafia contract
June 6: Daughter of 'Teflon don' faces lawsuit for return of advance on undelivered memoir
After years of waiting, Tremain scoops Orange prize
June 5: Celebrated author wins £30,000 award for tale of immigrant's life in Britain
Special report: Orange prize 2008
Inglorious triumph in first novel award
June 5: Joanna Kavenna's Inglorious has taken the 2008 Orange award for new writers
Murray describes fight to cope with trauma of Dunblane school killings
June 5: Tennis player recalls the shootings in his autobiography, remembering how he and his brother hid under a desk
James Bond smashes sales figures
June 4: Devil May Care, the new James Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks, has become Penguin's fastest ever selling hardback fiction title
Blog: Who should write the next one?
Age banding 'ill-conceived and damaging', say children's authors
June 4: Publishers' plans to introduce age ranging guidance onto children's books have met with fierce opposition from authors including Philip Pullman, Anne Fine and Michael Rosen.
Genome race and climate change vision vie for science book prize
June 4: Craig Venter's Life Decoded and Mark Lynas Six Degrees have seen off competition from the likes of Stephen Pinker to reach the shortlist of the Royal Society's Science book prize
Tinker, tailor, soldier, film star
June 4: John le Carré's hit thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is to hit the big screen
When Hemingway turned his hand to verse
June 4: Poems - unpublishable at the time - were scribbled at end of story collection
