• ‘Get on top of the computer program Final Draft. It's expensive and buggy, but it's the industry standard and for a first-time screenwriter like me there is something magical about the way it makes everything look like a Hollywood movie script. The other thing I have learnt is, the better...

It was hard to miss the fact that Amazon Prime had a sale this week. Newspapers and magazines covered the event as a celebration of consumption. This on top of a coronavirus pandemic that has accelerated the collapse of already struggling bricks-and-mortar retailers.

The literati is splitting into two rival camps in an incendiary argument over trans rights - and JK Rowling is at the centre. Katie Law reports from the increasingly toxic front line

Oh Bill! This isn't the kind of news we need now. The legendary Bill Bryson, purveyor of funny, insightful, warm-hearted books on everything from travel to popular science, for most of my life to date, has announced his retirement.

A number of big summer bestsellers, a surge in interest in books on social justice, and ongoing demand by parents for children's books that both educate and entertain combined to continue to push up unit sales of print books through this year's third quarter. According to NPD BookScan, print...

The Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend...