George R R Martin has said he has “made progress” on the sixth Game of Thrones book, The Winds of Winter, and thinks it will be published this year.

In Toronto, shoplifters are taking Murakami novels by the shelf load – showing up the UK’s lowbrow black market

Nominated by libraries in many parts of the world, seven of this year’s list are Irish, and almost 30 percent of the Dublin Literary Award list is in translation.

I Argentina starter 2017 med, at den kendte tegneseriestribe Mafalda udgives i en nyoversættelse – til punktskrift.

The Harry Potter author revealed to fans on Twitter that she has two books in the pipeline, one under her own name and one as Robert Galbraith

Monochrome magic with Mary Poppins, a swooning YA romance and Winnie-the-Pooh returns

After a tough year for women, and the end of the UN’s resident demigoddess, we need some inspiring heroines. Here are a few of mine – who would you choose?

Mark Stay and Mark Desvaux are picking up clues from publishers and authors in a new podcast, while they go about trying to write the next bestseller

We thumb through a year that saw a US author win the Booker, the death of a short-story master – and the first Brexit novel

Can YouTube really sell books? Naomi Bacon's answer is a resounding yes - and she's developed a three-step strategy to help you get there. This digest of her presentation from Frankfurt Book Fair is a must-read for any publisher hoping to improve their success with social video.

JK Rowling’s little dictionary of animals has spawned a huge film franchise, with all the attendant merchandise. But with the movie in cinemas worldwide, who wants to read a screenplay?

The University of East London is launching a new literary fiction prize for young adults, the CityLife Prize for Fiction for Young Writers.

The world of work is changing rapidly, and the demands being placed on everyone in this digital age are far greater.

School Zone Publishing has launched the Anywhere Teacher brand, centered on AnywhereTeacher.com, a subscription-based online destination that provides supplemental learning at home.

One of only seven manuscript copies of the Harry Potter-related stories is set to sell at auction for up to £500,000

Boys are generally less enthusiastic than girls to spend their time reading – but all they need are a few bookworm male role models

The climate crisis casts a much smaller shadow on literary fiction than it does on the world. We are living through a crisis of culture – and of the imagination

A US publisher claims to have produced the world’s longest graphic novel – a 2,000-page adaptation of the Old and New Testaments

The Global Illustration Awards were presented for the very first time yesterday, Thursday 20 October, at the Frankfurter Buchmesse. With the awards, the Frankfurter Buchmesse and the International Information Content Industry Association (ICIA) have recognised illustrators in five categories: Cover Illustration, Children’s Book Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Scientific Illustration and Theme Illustration.

Jamie Oliver and Phil Collins go up against Ladybird parodies and Danish coziness on bumper publishing day

Brian Sibley, contributor to a new Winnie-the-Pooh 90th-anniversary edition, celebrates the magic of AA Milne

Blandt de tippede vindere til at vinde prisen torsdag er kenyaner, japaner, en nordmand og amerikanere

Vintage has confirmed it is launching a new line of books spearheaded by Sarah Jessica Parker in the UK in 2018 and revealed a logo for the new imprint.

In conjunction with three publishing partners, Comixology, Amazon’s digital comics marketplace, is launching a digital publishing program. Comixology Originals will offer comics titles exclusively through the Comixology and Kindle platforms.

The singer’s memoirs, over which he laboured for seven years, sold more than 37,500 copies in the first week on sale and are tipped as a possible Christmas No 1