Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave ‘will pull no punches’

The actor has alleged that the film producer raped her in 1997, and her book promises to ‘shine a light on a business built on systemic misogyny’

Weinstein Books ‘terminated’ in wake of assault allegations

Film mogul’s associated publishing imprint is to close in the wake of scandal over multiple abuse allegations

Why serious literary fiction like Ishiguro’s is vital in times like these

In our digital age, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel prize is a reminder that novels still ask the biggest questions, says the literary critic Alice O’Keeffe

Rupi Kaur: the inevitable backlash against Instagram’s favourite poet

Kaur’s verses on love, sex and race have made her the most revered – and reviled – of today’s ‘instapoets’. As a new collection The Sun and Her Flowers hits shelves, is the social media star a dark omen for poetry or a fresh voice in literature?

Amazon redacts one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened

Hundreds of damning verdicts on memoir of 2016 presidential race, posted within hours of publication, have been removed by the online bookseller

From Evelyn Waugh to Elizabeth I: Vivien Leigh’s eclectic library up for auction

Personal inscriptions from Winston Churchill, Orson Welles and AA Milne in the actor and avid reader’s library are expected to sell for more than £500,000

Cool Britannia symbolised hope – but all it delivered was a culture of inequality

It’s 20 years since Tony Blair reshaped Britain’s economy around the arts, yet the project’s legacy is an exploitative sector dominated by people from an astonishingly small demographic pool

The young ‘Instapoet’ Rupi Kaur: from social media star to bestselling writer

Rupi Kaur’s first book, Milk and Honey, sold 1.4 million copieS

‘Show me the money!’: the self-published authors being snapped up by Hollywood

After the success of self-published authors like Andy Weir and EL James, Hollywood is scooping up the rights to books as fast as it can. But why – and is it always good for the author?

Justice served: comic creators announce Judge Dredd TV show

After two Hollywood failures, 2000AD’s British publisher Rebellion is planning ‘one of the most expensive TV shows the UK has ever seen’ with Mega-City One

JK Rowling’s ego akin to Kim Kardashian’s, says Joanna Trollope

City of Friends author claims Harry Potter creator’s ‘insatiable desire’ to air opinions on Twitter is threat to literary industry

Make it your hone: the ebook that you are forced to edit as you read

On each page of A Universe Explodes by Tea Uglow, owners are required to add one word and remove two – which amounts to an odd reading experience

‘Screen fatigue’ sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print

Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK

Seattle is the testing ground as Amazon eyes its next big idea

The retail giant is expanding into the physical world with a series of trials in Seattle. First came a book shop, but the real prize is in grocery

Alec Baldwin accuses HarperCollins of sloppy editing on his memoir

Claiming that his memoir, Nevertheless, contains “SEVERAL typos and errors”, the actor has decided to publish his own clarifications on Facebook