1. The British Humanist Association.

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The Arts Diary

The Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell and his wife have co-translated an acclaimed book, written by a Japanese child, about his experience of growing up with autism.

Want to write the next bestseller, but don’t want to have to actually come up with a book that everyone wants to buy? Then help is at hand.

The disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his estranged wife, Anne Sinclair, have complained to the editors of a French weekly magazine after it published extracts of a new book likening the former head of the IMF to a “half man, half pig”.

'He laughs a lot for someone who writes about people being bludgeoned to death'

Till ordinary life does us part ...

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The Goldfinch: A Novel is the story of a young orphan in New York

In the last fortnight Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' and 'Anne of Green Gables' have had their covers sexed-up to try and appeal to new audiences

Restaurants and literature are such natural bedfellows, it's amazing nobody's done this before. Remember Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler? Or The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers? Remember the little Parisian cafés where Ernest Hemingway claimed (in A Moveable Feast) he used to write when living on next to nothing in 1920s Paris?

The American author holds the same place in the 'most-borrowed' list this year as she did in 1983 when the Public Lending Right chart started

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