The Independent columnist and novelist Howard Jacobson is celebrating becoming the first writer to claim the UK's only prize for comic fiction for a second time.

We know nothing of what goes on in Kate's mind - and shouldn't expect to

Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel has insisted she has “absolutely nothing to apologise for” following widespread outrage over her apparent criticism of the Duchess of Cambridge.

Award-winning novelist says she has "absolutely nothing to apologise for"

Novelist Julian Barnes has opened up about the pitfalls involved in writing about sex.

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.

Ah, the dashing heir to the Earl of Grantham

Setting the patois among the pigeons

After her second win, can Hilary Mantel make it a hat-trick? Perhaps, but the final part of any trilogy, as Simon Usborne discovers, is a very tricky beast

Hilary Mantel has promised to use her third instalment of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy to "bring it home in style".

Hilary Mantel is favoured to become the first woman to win the coveted Man Booker Prize for fiction twice, with her historical novel Bring Up the Bodies ahead of Will Self's Umbrella in the bookmakers' rankings.

Gabriel Byrne is set to star in a series of crime thrillers based on novels by Booker Prize winner John Banville.

Nina Bawden, the author of 48 books including the children's story Carrie's War, has died at the age of 87.