USA 14/01/2017 'Exorcist' author William Peter Blatty dies The novelist and filmmaker who wrote “The Exorcist”, William Peter Blatty, has died at the age of 89 in Maryland.
Germany 04/01/2017 Rising Mein Kampf sales in Germany shock publisher Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's semi-autobiographical foundation of Nazi ideological thought, has experienced a surprising resurgence, says its publisher
United Kingdom 28/12/2016 "Watership Down" author Richard Adams dies Renowned children's author and creator of "Watership Down" Richard Adams has died aged 96.
United Kingdom 26/10/2016 'The Sellout' by Paul Beatty wins Man Booker prize An American has won the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize for the first time.
United Kingdom 31/07/2016 JK Rowling thanks Harry Potter fans as 'Cursed Child' script released Harry Potter fans have been waiting nine years for this moment and it seems they were as keen as ever to snap up the next installment in the wizarding saga.
world news 19/02/2016 'To Kill A Mockingbird' author Harper Lee dies aged 89 The American author Harper Lee, who wrote one of the country’s best known literary classics “To Kill A Mockingbird”, has died aged 89. Her death was
Romania 25/01/2016 Writing your way out of a Romanian prison Prosecutors in Romania are trying to establish if some prisoners jailed for corruption and fraud are claiming authorship of books to get their
Vatican 13/01/2016 Pope Francis uses new book to call for more compassion within the Church Pope Francis has called for Roman Catholic leaders to be “compassionate shepherds to a wounded humanity”. The message comes in the publication of a
Germany 08/01/2016 Mein Kampf returns: read-between-the-lines version Hitler’s opus ‘Mein Kampf’ is back in stores in Germany now for the first time since 1945, one of history’s most notorious works, republished with a
Egypt 18/10/2015 Egyptian novelist Gamal Al Ghitani dies Renowned Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal Al Ghitani died on Sunday at a hospital in Cairo where he had been in a coma for more than three
Germany 14/10/2015 Iran boycotts Frankfurt Book Fair over Salman Rushdie appearance Iran is boycotting this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair because of an appearance by British Indian author Salman Rushdie. He was the subject of an
Sweden 05/10/2015 The Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander has died The Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell has died of cancer at the age of 67. The author revealed he had the illness in a newspaper column last year
United Kingdom 21/09/2015 #Piggate: Lurid claims about David Cameron capture imagination of British press A colourful biography of Britain’s prime minister written by a former friend who was once the biggest donor to David Cameron’s Conservative party
Nigeria 18/08/2015 Nigeria: girl, 9, writes book on terrorism after meeting displaced children Splendour Joe Abisoye is no ordinary nine year old. A trip to a camp for displaced civilians in her country’s north made such an impression on the
United Kingdom 22/07/2015 Oldest fragments of the Koran found in Birmingham, UK A British university says fragments of a Koran manuscript found in its library were from one of the oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text in
Culture 27/04/2015 How young translators are helping knit European culture together Europe’s babel-like patchwork of languages has, on the face of it, made communication and understanding a constant issue. To deal with it the EU has
Culture 27/04/2015 Found in translation: One minute with David Konečný In this bonus interview we chat to David Konečný, photographer for Czech publishing house Vetrne Mlyny. Find out more about a project to boost the
Israel 01/01/2015 HarperCollins wipes Israel off the map HarperCollins has come under fire after it published an atlas that omits the state of Israel from the Middle East. The map was printed showing
Germany 08/10/2014 Finnish-themed Frankfurt Book Fair opens in Germany The world’s biggest book exposition is underway in Germany. The Frankfurt Book Fair expects 300,000 visitors between now and Sunday. The guest of
United Kingdom 08/09/2014 Book claims to definitively prove identity of Jack the Ripper The identity of Jack the Ripper, one of the of the greatest murder mysteries for more than 100 years, has been solved beyond doubt, according to a
