‘The man was obviously a crook’: the decline and fall of Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch were once the two biggest power brokers in British politics. But their fierce rivalry paved the way for Maxwell’s demise
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Only half of pre-school children being read to daily, UK study finds
Survey finds proportion of toddlers having story time fell by a fifth in five years
‘If you’re a dude, you may be tensing up’: the woman making art out of mansplainers
Comedy writer Nicole Tersigni got fed up of men explaining her own jokes back to her. So she paired their patronising comments with classical art – and went viral
Literary world overwhelmed by 600 books to be published on one day
Hundreds of titles will flood the market because of Covid. It’s bad news for minority authors, says former Booker prize judge
Sharmaine Lovegrove: ‘You must spend a year in a bookshop before you get a job in publishing’
Seeing unexpected pairings of readers and books quickly dispels the idea of who reads what
Where are the hotshot British male novelists? BAME authors may know
Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Abir Mukherjee, Courttia Newland, Guy Gunaratne, Paul Mendez and Okechukwu Nzelu on why British writers of colour are left out of the conversation
First George RR Martin, now Patrick Rothfuss: the curse of sequel-hungry fans
Weary of waiting for epic fantasy series to be concluded, some fans – and even, it appears, one editor – are turning against their favourite authors
Eliza Clark: ‘I’m from Newcastle and working class. To publishers, I’m diverse’
The author of Boy Parts is keen to stress that she is not underprivileged – and nor is she anything like her sadistic young antiheroine
Four-year-old lands book deal for his ‘astonishing’ poetry
Nadim Shamma-Sourgen’s words, evoking a ‘whole world full of hugs’, were spotted by the writer Kate Clanchy and will be published next summer
Google to pay some publishers for content; others dubious
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google on Thursday took a step towards resolving its spat with publishers, saying it would pay some media groups in Australia, Brazil and Germany for high-quality content and expects to do more deals, but others were sceptical.