14 February 2012 12:00 AM
Since her release from an Italian prison, the only words that Amanda Knox has uttered in public were brief, tearful comments directed to the scrum of reporters who had gathered outside Seattle's Tacoma airport to witness her homecoming.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Exactly 50 years ago, Decca's Dick Rowe turned down the Fab Four, so heading an unenviable club of talent-spotters who passed up their biggest chance. But is it all an urban myth? A new book suggests so
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
It should have been the ultimate "hell-on-earth" blockbuster, starring the "sexiest man alive" and including the most spectacular battle scenes ever seen on screen.
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Three productions clash with the DiCaprio blockbuster – so which will end in tragedy?
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
09 February 2012 12:00 AM
He starred in The Office and has been nominated for a Tony award for his theatre work – now Mackenzie Crook is in the running for a literary prize for emerging talent in children's literature.
08 February 2012 12:00 AM
It was an elegant yet acidic deconstruction of a Pulitzer Prize winning author's literary pretensions. Last night Adam Mars-Jones was rewarded with the Hatchet Job of the Year Award for the most scathing book review of 2011.
08 February 2012 12:00 AM
In scenes beyond even the imagination of Britain's greatest novelist, the life of Charles Dickens was celebrated yesterday at simultaneous events at his birthplace, Portsmouth, and at the site of his burial in Westminster Abbey.
07 February 2012 08:12 AM
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will be leading celebrations today to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.
06 February 2012 12:00 AM
The Schools minister Nick Gibb has great expectations of Britain's 11-year-olds, singling out Charles Dickens' classic as one of the books all children should read before they leave primary school. But on the eve of Dickens' 200th birthday, his biographer has warned that young readers do not have the attention-span to appreciate his work.
06 February 2012 12:00 AM
To say it was a surprise when Cormac McCarthy appeared to have turned up on Twitter would be an understatement worthy of the reclusive novelist himself.
31 January 2012 12:00 AM
Ebook sales almost quadrupled in December against a year earlier at the Dragon Tattoo publisher Quercus.
29 January 2012 12:00 AM
New book shows how people redefine themselves when calamity strikes. By Genevieve Roberts
28 January 2012 12:00 AM
28 January 2012 12:00 AM
The spectre of the most scandalous and depressing episode in recent literary history raised its head this week. Salman Rushdie once again had his safety and his life threatened over his book The Satanic Verses, and was unable to show his face.
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