As Charlie Brown celebrates his 65th birthday, Lucy Davies learns how his creator, Charles M Schulz, reinvented comics for the modern world.

Bill Bryson famously came from Iowa ("Somebody had to"). So do the farming dynasty of Jane Smiley's now-completed trilogy.

The adult art craze is driving a resurgence in book sales but many bookworms are colouring-in rather than reading.

Controversy around youth novel Into the River has stirred rising interest in the book at some libraries.

Publishers have put off printing to include the final result in the final chapter - but the book is supposed to be out by November 14.

J.R.R Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth has been discovered inside a copy of The Lord of the Rings.

An edited extract from High Country Stations of the Mackenzie, written by Mary Hobbs reveals the pioneers of the famed Mt Cook Station.

Google can continue to scan books without paying authors after a court rules it was 'fair use'.

The author's newest crime book emphasises the dark twist her career has taken, with her most gruesome plot to date and research which gave her "nightmares".

The Blink-182 rocker was one of only two survivors when a Learjet 60 carrying him and five others crashed in South Carolina in 2008.

The Porcelain Thief describes Hsu's search for it, which, of course, necessitated his taking a job with a wealthy uncle in Shanghai and learning the language and customs of his ancestral home.

It's not at all easy to talk about Grace Jones - disco queen, new waver, Bond villain, diva, android, androgyne - as if she is a real person.

A biography detailing the life of Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed reveals a darker side to the rock legend.

The book, which features sexually explicit content, drug use and use of slang for female genitalia, is now classified as unrestricted.

They were the wholesome educational aids which taught generations of children the basics of everything from cake decorating to nuclear power.

The internet is braced for meltdown as the first official drawing of the world's most unlikely sex symbol is unveiled.

Friends teased her as a child, but Hamilton 22-year-old Yvette Willemse is now a proper author with a four-book contract with an American publisher.

From East Berlin to war-torn Africa, Frederick Forsyth's Bond-like past shows what made him a natural fit for MI6.

This is Hastings' first sortie into the secret world as he puts the codebreakers' achievements in context by measuring them against competing sources of secret intelligence.

This is a cross-over novel of "stories within stories within stories". We're told at the start it's written by a supine, seriously-injured survivor of some major disaster.

Bestselling novelist Jojo Moyes on how her childhood shapes her popular novels.

Clive James has just spoken for many, wondering aloud why he is "wasting" so much time binge-watching box sets of television dramas such as Game of Thrones, writes Lucy Mangan. The multi-disc box set is increasingly our answer to the novel.