FRY and Philip Pullman are to judge this year’s Dundee International Book Prize, which at £10,000 for the winner, offers the biggest cash prize for any unpublished work in the country. They will be joined by Scottish novelist Alan Bissett and Edinburgh...

Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, he also studied set design at nearby Brown University. But it was only while working at the famous children's bookshop Eeyore's Books in Manhattan that he decided to become an illustrator. Much of his early...

2012. It was last modified at 16.50 GMT on Tuesday 7 February 2012. What to read after Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series? Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I am 14 years old. I have recently discovered a liking for Victorian mystery books,...

On borrowed time - FT.com. (Hat tip, dave Lull.) However, the British hoo-ha has gone beyond coffee mornings and Where’s Wally? “To close a library is a crime,” said Michael Morpurgo. “We have to stand up against the barbarians,” cried Philip Pullman. ...

The author, pictured, of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials said that the originators of educational material should be paid fairly: "Anything else is simply theft by another name." Writers including Julia Donaldson and Anne Fine – the current and...

The ALCS has been contacted by "hundreds" of writers condemning the proposal to widen the field for copyright exceptions, it said, with many authors saying they would not be able to afford to continue writing for the educational sector under the...