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• Declining genre spells gloom for publishers

  Dec 2 2008:

  Sales of 'misery memoirs' fall after they boomed beyond all expectations since Dave Pelzer wrote A Child Called It

• Jury clears judge of libelling mother in 'misery memoir'

  Dec 2 2008:

  Constance Briscoe told court her mother beat her with a stick for bed-wetting and called her a 'dirty little whore'

• Constance Briscoe wins Ugly libel case

  Dec 1 2008:

  The barrister Constance Briscoe has won the libel case brought against her by her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, over her bestselling misery memoir Ugly.

• Scottish book of the year goes to Kieron Smith, Boy

  Dec 1 2008:

  Saltire Society's award goes to Booker winner James Kelman's novel

• Gay Bible angers Christians

  Dec 1 2008:

  American film producer to publish version of the Bible in which God says it is better to be gay than straight

• Hitchcock's inventions disappear in BBC's latest version of The 39 Steps

  Nov 30 2008:

  Mr Memory and the missing finger disappear as the BBC returns to the original plot of Buchan's classic

• Culture crunch: Struggling booksellers fall into the tourist trap

  Nov 29 2008:

  Sales at open-air stalls along Seine dive as rare and out-of-print books face competition from online dealers

• Catalan novelist Juan Marsé wins the 'Spanish Nobel prize'

  Nov 28 2008:

  Publishers hope Cervantes prize will spark renewed British interest in 'fantastic' author

• New Poetry Society director lays out plans to grab public's attention

  Nov 27 2008:

  Judith Palmer explains why knitting and the Olympics can raise poetry's profile

• Rowling gift helps Labour's fundraising pull ahead of Tories'

  Nov 27 2008:

  Trade union donations more than halved but party debt remains at just under £16m

• Bruce Wayne to die in new Batman comic?

  Nov 26 2008:

  Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne has reached the end of the line, according to DC Comics writer Grant Morrison

• Between the lines: Andrew Motion's advice to the next poet laureate

  Nov 26 2008:

  There is an unimaginable difference between leading a relatively private life and the public life suddenly required of you

• Poet sought for job quite fraught. Critics may make merry; at least the pay is sherry

  Nov 26 2008:

  For those with thick skin, ministers are looking for man or woman who will be next poet laureate

• Obama cornered by Canongate

  Nov 26 2008:

  Who are the most ardent fans of Barack Obama in Britain? The people at Canongate, the Edinburgh-based publishers

• Rachel Johnson 'honoured' to win Bad Sex award

  Nov 25 2008:

  Shire Hell takes annual prize, while judges acclaim John Updike's lifetime achievement

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