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JG Ballard at his home in Shepperton, Surrey

JG Ballard's daughters reveal his secret archive

Arifa Akbar: Author had always denied keeping notes and manuscripts

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Barbara Kingsolver beat tough opposition from Hilary Mantel and Laurie Moore to steal a win

Kingsolver takes a decade to get a taste of Orange

Thursday, 10 June 2010

It is an epic story about Mexico, McCarthyism and the intertwined love lives of the firebrand painter Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky, that took Barbara Kingsolver nearly a decade to write.

Two never-before-seen works by Swedish author Stieg Larsson have been found

Lost Stieg Larsson manuscripts found in Sweden

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

The good news for Stieg Larsson addicts: two unpublished manuscripts have been unearthed in his native Sweden. The bad news: they have nothing to do with the Millennium trilogy.

Lionel Shriver's 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' won the 2005 Orange Prize

We need to talk about 'dumb' literary awards

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Prize-winning author Lionel Shriver hits out at publishers and says latest accolade is a waste

English writer Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times discussed the social and economic problems of its age

First-edition books may fetch £15m

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

A collection of first-edition books, described as the greatest of its kind, is estimated to sell for between £8m and £15m at auction later this year.

Designer boots and brollies were the order of the day at the Hay Festival yesterday

Making Hay while the sun don't shine

Sunday, 30 May 2010

Katy Guest sorts the wheat from the chaff, and the wellies from the suits, at the literary festival

Jeffery Deaver has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide

American thriller writer to pen the next James Bond novel

Friday, 28 May 2010

When Ian Fleming died in 1964, fans of the world's most famous fictional spy at least had the consolation that James Bond had not gone with him: 007's story continued to be told by writers including Kingsley Amis as well as by Hollywood's film franchise, all determined to keep alive the suave, Martini-sipping secret agent.

Prezza: My Story. It may have been his story, but John Prescott did not write it. The writing was ghosted by Hunter Davies, author of books about the Beatles and Gazza. Reported advance: £300,000

The battle to write the inside story of New Labour

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Andy McSmith: Freed from the cares of office, party heavyweights are racing to get their version of the years in power into print

Alex Bellos's Adventures in Numberland has made the Samuel Johnson prize shortlist

Samuel Johnson prize shortlist announced

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Casino betting strategies, perilous romances in authoritarian North Korea and secret meetings in the corner office at Lehman Brothers are among the tales short listed in this year's BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

Courtney Stewart at Christian Life City

The word of God – in every language on Earth

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Bible Society's hi-tech mission brings Gospel to remote tribes

"I hate comic novels; it's like being wrestled to the ground and being tickled, being forced to laugh" - McEwan in 2008

McEwan wins prize for genre he 'hates'

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Best-selling author Ian McEwan has won an award for comic fiction.

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