The famously irascible novelist Irvine Welsh has rules about rage. Here, in typically forthright language, he tells how to get furious - and survive

The editor of Granta, Jason Cowley, has been appointed as editor of the New Statesman.

Large print is not just for an older generation, but for people who are staring at a computer all day

Customisation will not stop at bundling multiple texts together, though. Something that has shocked traditional media companies perhaps more than anything about the Web 2.0 world is the desire of consumers to produce and to share rich media content of

London-born Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories went straight to number 1 in the American bestseller lists. Now her tales of immigrant life are being hailed as a new direction in US literature.

A neat publisher's trick for selling yet more copies of a book that has been a bestseller for years is the replica anniversary edition.

Technology has disrupted every industry. Now, it's book publishing's turn.

Damn Few And They're A' Deid". Bizarre as it sounds, that mantra has become the motto of a generation of Scottish literary critics and writers, a generation characterised by chippy self-satisfaction, defensive insularity and romantic vainglory. How did this complacent,

The rumble started some months ago when the Macmillan-distributed house that was founded six years ago as an adjunct to the U.K. version (a.k.a. the house that Harry Potter built) began to contract; several staffers were laid off, including the

Mr Rosen disclosed that he was not under the spell of the highly popular wizarding series, which have sold more than 400 million copies around the world and earned author JK Rowling an estimated £560 million

Arthur Dent is the last human being left in the galaxy after Earth is destroyed. Thanks to the Vogon Constructor Fleet that clears the planet away to make room for an interstellar highway. However, he escapes destruction by sneaking away

Secrecy surrounds the new comic strip created by Philip Pullman, author of the best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy of novels. The strip will appear at the end of the month in The DFC, the first new weekly comic for children

The 30 best books festivals in the British Isles: the definitive 2008 guide

Inside the low-set brick home on Australia's Sunshine Coast hinterland, bestselling authors Rachael Bermingham and Kim McCosker are celebrating their success.

British readers have come to know only a handful of writers from down under: Peter Carey, David Malouf, Shirley Hazzard, Thomas Keneally and Geraldine Brooks, who win important international awards. Yet there is a vast continent of other voices crowding

Those of us who are vulnerable to the siren call of procrastination can find plenty of fictional compatriots on our bookshelves, though they may provide cold comfort.

WH Smith's chief executive Kate Swann is considering a £50m bid for the stationery chain Paperchase - the latest in a string of acquisitions - despite facing a downturn on Britain's high street.

Borders announced in March that it's putting itself up for sale. It's the second time in eight years the company has put itself on the market, this time following a second year of record losses topping $150 million. Although sales