BOOKS

Canadian Munro informed she won Nobel Prize in Literature by voicemail.

Jenkins says Borrowdale in the Lake District is his favourite view in England.

Literature survey shows third of people in UK cannot name author of Great Expectations.

Hercule Poirot is on a new case after taking rest for 39 years. The author is Sophie Hannah.

Fifty Shades trilogy author EL James debuts on list of millionaire authors.

Study finds E L James' erotic novel perpetuates sexual violence and emotional abuse.

Self-published erotic trilogy This Man by UK author Jodi Ellen Malpas gains legions of US fans. Print and film may follow.

The writer Iain Banks has died aged 59, months after being diagnosed with cancer.

Lost in Translation star claims novelist Gregoire Delacourt has 'breached' her rights by writing a novel featuring a character who resembles her.

To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee sues literary agent Samuel Pinkus

Prison libraries across the country are stocking up on copies of best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey by EL as it has become a hit among female prisoners.

Scottish author of The Wasp Factory reveals he has only s a few months to live.

Helga Weiss’s account of life in WWII concentration camps Terezin and Auschwitz published by Penguin.

Sunday Times journalist Camilla Long slams marriage break-up memoir as 'vague literary blah'.

Kar-Ben Publishing releases children's book, in English, for the LGBT community

The ‘taboo and distasteful’ sex book was unofficially banned for over 200 years.

Knives out for harsh and funny critiques of literary giants' failed masterpieces for 2012.

Edgar Feuchtwanger describes life over the road from future Nazi dictator in run-up to Third Reich.

Fans will raise their glasses to the Lord of the Rings author at 9pm tonight.

JK Rowling unlocks extended chapters for fans to read online at Pottermore.

London's In & Out club hosts 20th annual awards marking flaccid prose, unsexy images and clumsy verbal technique.

BBC One has commissioned an adaptation of the Harry Potter author's dark thriller.

Peter Hitchens book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs, is not what you might expect.

History was made at the Man Booker prize last night as Hilary Mantel became the first woman and the first British novelist, to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize twice and receive £50,000 as part of the prize. For her novel, Bring up the Bodies.

Mantel becomes first woman and first British novelist to win prestigious prize twice.

Five-day book fair, with New Zealand as guest of honour, has 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries.

Despite dividing critics, The Causal Vacancy sells 124,603 copies in first three days.

Harry Potter author's new book, The Casual Vacancy, describes a Sikh female student as hairy.

The Who's Pete Townshend reveals in memoir Who I Am that the Rolling Stones frontman was 'only man I've ever wanted to f***'