Invisibility cloaks are usually found in the fictional world of Harry Potter, but researchers in the US claim to have created one.

It is a torrid tale of unrequited love which ends with a charge of sexual harassment. But Bound With New Ropes, a 480 page-turner priced at £10, has one unusual feature – it was authored by an NHS anaesthetist while his patients were asleep.

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old who survived being shot after standing up to the Taliban, is to tell her story "and the story of 61 million children who can't get education" in a memoir.

Her memoir 'Waiting to be Heard' is due to be published at the end of April

A poet is working with dementia patients to weave their words into poetry. Susanna Howard, sits with them, often in silence, jotting down whatever words they utter, and then uses only these utterances to put a poem together for her collections, Living Words.

Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes contemplated suicide after the death of his wife, his new memoir has revealed.

Title won prize despite competition from a book on Adolf Hitler's health, and a book on how to sharpen pencils

William Faulkner wrote several works about the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Steinbeck mined the possibilities of his native California in the “Dustbowl” years of the Depression. But we have to look back to James Joyce and his love-hate relationship with Dublin to find an equivalent of Philip’s Roth attitude to his birthplace, Newark.

Chinua Achebe, described as the “father of modern African literature” who inspired generations of writers across the continent, has died at the age of 82. 

Reclusive South African writer reveals admiration for tennis star Roger Federer

Reclusive South African writer reveals admiration for tennis star Roger Federer

Publishers Michael Joseph (part of Penguin) won a fierce bidding war for Pippa Middleton’s first book, Celebrate, and are believed to be planning two follow-ups.

Agatha Christie may have been dubbed “The Queen of Crime,” but fellow bestselling writer Lynda La Plante has secured a title even her illustrious predecessor would have coveted.

The dark tale of a teenage girl writing to a murderer on death row, based on the author’s own experiences, was tonight awarded the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.

John Walsh discovers a whole new chapter of scientific research