Books

Tom Baker has written a brand-new Doctor Who novel

Gary Barlow reveals he used being overweight to hide in plain sight

Sir Quentin Blake imagines what Matilda is up to 30 years after Roald Dahl's book was published

Christopher Eccleston

Actor and former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston reveals he is writing his memoirs

Doctor Who villains are getting their own Christmas stories this year

James Naughtie, BBC Pictures, SL

Radio 4's Bookclub host James Naughtie reveals his guilty reading pleasures

Jordan Peterson reflects on Cathy Newman Channel 4 interview: "I’m glad I wasn’t the one who was being torn to shreds online"

JK Rowling

JK Rowling apologises for the killing of another beloved Harry Potter character

"I want my books to be hopeful, because that's what life is like": author and cancer survivor Ruth Hogan on the "up lit" book trend

"Finally, white friends were interested in our culture": author Nikesh Shukla on the power of multicultural TV

BBC reveals Hay Festival 2018 line-up

J R R Tolkien

JRR Tolkien's first ever Middle-earth story The Fall of Gondolin will finally be published

Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat changed the plots of their Doctor Who episodes in new books – here’s why

Jodie Whittaker’s new Doctor to star in short story for updated Doctor Who anthology

Jacqueline Wilson explains why she's bringing back Tracy Beaker – as a single mum

Wizard Harry Potter Books

14 important pieces of wisdom found in children's books

Books becoming films in 2018

World Book Day: 13 books that are becoming movies in 2018 you NEED to read

Books becoming TV shows in 2018

15 books to read on World Book Day that are airing on TV in 2018

First look at Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who novels

Ruby Wax: “we weren’t built for happiness, we were built for survival”

The Vanity Fair Diaries: Tina Brown lifts the lid on 1980s New York high society in new memoirs

Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies are writing special Doctor Who novels

JK Rowling's not too sure about naming your pets after Voldemort

Doctor Who fan art

A look inside the new Doctor Who book illustrated with fan art

JK Rowling Deathly Hallows

JK Rowling reveals the emotional inspiration for Harry Potter's Deathly Hallows symbol

Harry Potter: A History of Magic Exhibition

13 of the best magical items JK Rowling has donated to the British Library's Harry Potter exhibition

The real-life treasures that inspired JK Rowling’s magical world of Harry Potter

In the Dark author Mark Billingham: from real-life hostage to crime writer

Philip Pullman: The Book of Dust is neither a prequel nor a sequel to His Dark Materials

New Harry Potter exhibition displays the Hogwarts professors who didn't make it into JK Rowling's novels