Going Out

Beatles song Octopus's Garden to be published as children's book

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 soar following PRISM US privacy revelations

500 Words: Richard Hammond on why children's writing is so powerful

500 Words: Jacqueline Wilson offers her advice to young authors

500 Words: Chris Evans - we have to make written stories better than TV and computer games

500 Words: Malorie Blackman - children are more honest in their writing than adults

Young authors inspired by James Bond and Cinderella – not Justin Bieber

New Bridget Jones novel title and excerpt released – and she’s on Twitter!

JK Rowling's annotated copy of Harry Potter goes up for auction

Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith nominated for Women's Prize For Fiction

Sheila Hancock: how my love for John Thaw evokes Brontë

Jackie Collins seeks the "next big name" in erotic fiction

Dan Brown to release new Robert Langdon novel Inferno in May

Johnny Depp seeks “authentic, outspoken, visionary ideas and voices” for publishing company

JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: the Twitter reaction

JK Rowling: The Casual Vacancy reviews - what the critics think

YouTube's Fenton the Dog gets his own book

Phillipa Gregory adaptation The White Queen heading for BBC1

Alan Partridge and some of the best fictitious autobiographies

Paddington Bear voted best animated character

Radio Times unblocks local toilet stalemate

Bleak House voted best TV Dickens adaptation

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: a clue to Charles Dickens's death?

My Best Dickens Story – by Great Expectations stars

Acting out The Gruffalo's Child

Booker judge Chris Mullin turns on literary snobs

Terry Pratchett takes "first tentative steps" towards own assisted suicide

Potters of money on 2011 Rich List

Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint talk The Deathly Hallows