Read for My School aims to create a sense of excitement about reading

A free literary festival for children run by the London Evening Standard and Nook, will take place in London's Trafalgar Square on 13 July.

The parents of a 13-year-old schoolgirl who died from a brain aneurism have published her private diaries.

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo has written a new play about the Christmas truce of the First World War.

I feel like all the buses in my life came at once The War Horse show, the film, my new book [A Medal for Leroy]. The play has become a living thing. It goes on every night, five casts, all over the world. In fact, someone told me that, at any hour of the day or night, a War Horse production is going on somewhere. It's extraordinary what those puppeteers do [with the horse].

For all their fractiousness, they really are all in it together

Pusher (87 mins, 18)

Hmm, I've heard that name before ...

A curiously successful case of a hit novel turned into a play

Curiouser and curiouser – another novel production

Model Agyness Deyn is to play a farmer in a bleak drama set in rural Scotland.

Playwright Richard Bean reworks James Corden show to suit American theatregoers

Simon Annand gained access to A-list dressing rooms to shoot the stars. As a new exhibition opens, he shares some backstage secrets with Charlotte Cripps

Simon Annand gained access to A-list dressing rooms to shoot the stars. As a new exhibition opens, he shares some backstage secrets