Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks can immerse one deeper in the writer’s world

In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screwups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.

Kristin Cashore, author of the Graceling series and "Jane Unlimited"

A movie or TV series needs to pack in a LOT of action. A slow-paced, emotional tale might not adapt to film so easily. Even if you wrote a fast-paced action-adventure, you will have to adapt your thinking as much as adapting your manuscript.

Even as TV and streaming services are snapping up video game IP, their popularity in the literary world is waning.

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover for the Paris Hilton's upcoming book, which chronicles her rebellious youth, the abuse she claims to have endured and her rise to global superstardom.

Not every book can be a thriller or a heartbreaker. But yours can. It is a superb way to stand out from the crowd – to produce a book that stands head and shoulders above other books in your field. Keep them reading, pull at their emotions, and your book is more likely to make its point.

Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s new book reveals the tricks behind ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ – how big corporations use low prices to lock in users and creators, while locking out real competition.

Despite bricks-and-mortar bookshops being closed for much of 2020, over 200 million print books were sold in that year – the highest number since 2012.

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.

This Halloween, reading some of the foundational American scary stories can help us shiver along with the spookiest sides of society and self alike.

Elden Ring, the open-world, spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, saw the involvement of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the game’s backstory. Like Dark Souls, the story of Elden Ring isn’t exactly told to the player - it is implied, hinted at through evocative item descriptions, the vague ramblings of NPC characters, and experienced through the world itself.

A Marxist whose books did it all.

Richard B Woodward, who has known McCarthy for 30 years, on the reclusive author’s love of scientific thinking, and why he will publish two novels in two months after a 16-year wait

A team of researchers in Romania has discovered over 200 books and manuscripts in a church in Mediaș. It includes dozens of early printed works and manuscript fragments dating back to as early as the 9th century.

For six years, thousands of Agatha Christie enthusiasts across the globe have downloaded the podcast for what one listener described as a 'joyfully geeky' take on the Queen of Crime’s expansive canon.

The first in The Nameless Republic trilogy. A complex world with a very un-European civilization. Very readable.

Book banning in libraries and schools is gaining momentum across the country.

Inscribed first edition of Emma to go on display in UK for first time at Chawton House, Hampshire