Keith Richards’ war of words with Mick Jagger continued yesterday, when he admitted that his Rolling Stones bandmate had described his autobiography as “a bit bitchy”.It seemed a mild term for [Continue]

What began as a public service for blinded First World War veterans is now a major publishing success story getty imagesMartin Jarvis is one of the UK’s most prolific recorders of talking books, [Continue]

GETTYHouellebecq said, “I am very happy?After all, I think it was necessary in my life. In any case, it’s a very good thing.”Michel Houellebecq, the best-selling French [Continue]

GETTYHouellebecq said, “I am very happy?After all, I think it was necessary in my life. In any case, it’s a very good thing.”Michel Houellebecq, the best-selling French [Continue]

Her cells have been used in genetics for 50 years. Now her story is a publishing triumphHenrietta Lacks, the poor black tobacco worker who died in 1951 without knowing that [Continue]

He started gently enough, travelling all of one-and-a-half miles from his house in North Dallas early yesterday to sign copies of his memoir, Decision Points, at a branch of Borders bookshop. Was he allowed to go home [Continue]

We’ve heard his side of the story. Now Independent writers present their verdicts on the key claims made in ‘Decision Points’ AFP/GETTY IMAGESGeorge W. Bush: ‘I hope I’m judged a success, but [Continue]

He started gently enough, travelling all of one-and-a-half miles from his house in North Dallas early yesterday to sign copies of his memoir, Decision Points, at a branch of Borders bookshop. Was he allowed to go home [Continue]

A touching vote-winner – among children if not every adult – hit the bookshelves in America yesterday written by none other than Barack Obama, whose success in the best-sellers’ lists [Continue]

If Ian McEwan and David Mitchell’s publishers were hoping to forget their Man Booker Prize snub earlier this year, then they will find cold comfort in [Continue]