‘I couldn’t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher’: can our taste in books help us find love?

Readers are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility?

DisneyMustPay: authors form task force to fight for missing payments

Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now owns

Amazon to stop selling books that frame LGBTQ+ identities as mental illness

Retail giant announces decision in letter to Republican US senators about removal of book by conservative academic

Amazon.com and ‘Big Five’ publishers accused of ebook price-fixing

Class action lawsuit filed in US claims the houses have colluded with the online giant to keep prices artificially high

Alan Rickman’s 27 volumes of diaries to be published as one book

The Diaries of Alan Rickman, written by the actor until his death with the intention of one day publishing them, will be released in autumn 2022

Star Wars author appeals to Disney in fight over royalties

Alan Dean Foster claims media giant has not paid him royalties for his books after acquiring Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox

Quentin Tarantino to write novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Film director signs two-book deal, for novel of his 2019 film and a ‘deep dive’ into 1970s cinema

Never-ending stories: from Bond to Galbraith, why is everything so long?

Films are bum-numbers, books are doorstoppers – even podcasts go on for hours. What’s behind the rise of cultural epics – and is it time someone gave them a trim?

Story of ‘bloodthirsty unicorns’ brings debut author record publishing deal

Annabel Steadman’s fantasy series Skandar and the Unicorn Thief has won a seven-figure book contract, with film rights also sold to Sony Pictures

The Beatles announce Get Back, first official book in 20 years

Hanif Kureishi writes introduction to book edited from 120 hours of conversations from the Let It Be sessions, in tandem with Peter Jackson documentary

What do writers gain – and lose – when they eschew social media?

You won’t find Maggie O’Farrell, Women’s Prize winner, on Twitter. Perhaps she’s on to something

Glennon Doyle: how the author and love warrior changed Adele’s life

The singer has credited Doyle’s latest bestselling self-help memoir, Untamed, with transforming her sense of self. And Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon are similarly impressed

UK creative industries facing £74bn drop in income after lockdown

Report says 400,000 jobs likely to be lost across sectors including music, theatre and art

Dishoom asks cookbook pirates to donate to charity appeal

After a bootleg of its recipe book was sent to ‘everyone and their nice auntie’, restaurant chain appeals to readers to buy copies or donate to Hospitality Action

Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made for a thriller plot

When The Da Vinci Code author’s next novel needed simultaneous translations in 2013, what happened next was extraordinary enough to inspire a film of its own