International best-selling novelist and highly valued supporter, Frederick Forsyth has donated an exceptional auction prize to Leonard Cheshire Disability – a rare and exciting opportunity for fans to name a character in his next book. The highest bidder will not... More...

Independent British publisher How To Books is pioneering a new business model by putting the full text of 150 titles on the web for free, with no registration or subscription required. The company advertises physical copies of the books alongside the electronic... More...

Italian travel-writing masterpieces

Vroom by the Sea. The Sunny Parts of Italy on a Bright Orange Vespa

By Peter Moore, ISBN: 978-1-84024-737-4, Paperback, 320pages, April 2009, £7.99. A final fling before fatherhood on a babe-magnet Vespa. With the patter... More...

Rubina Ali, nine-year old star of Slumdog Millionaire to publish her life story, Slumgirl Dreaming, on 16th July. Transworld and Random House Children’s Books to publish Slumgirl Dreaming: My Journey to the Stars by Rubina Ali, the extraordinary life story of the nine-year... More...

• Winners announced for Wind in the Willows short story competition -

• Authors re-frame Kenneth Grahame’s classic for the 21st Century -

There’s not a toad, a rat or a badger to be seen in the winning entries to a competition launched by the River & Rowing Museum (www.rrm.co.uk) to write a short story inspired by... More...