Two years ago the Harry Potter creator announced she was making just seven leather-bound copies of her book The Tales of Beedle the Bard, six of which she gave to friends. Full Article at The Telegraph

• Eva Green in the Catherine Palace, St Petersburg, photographed for Mont Blanc. It's close to 5pm when I meet Eva Green, in a particularly quirky room in London's Sanderson Hotel. Full Article at The Scotsman

A couple of weeks ago in London, at a fundraiser for a prisoners’ rights organization Reprieve, the British writer Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy (better known in the US as The Golden Compass) unveiled an alternative Bible... Full Article at True/Slant

With a good deal of theatrical fare designed for family consumption at Christmas, you can confidently check your brains in at the cloakroom and sit back expecting a certain end-of-term laxity on the artistic front. Full Article at The Independent

As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Britain. Full Article at Butterflies and Wheels

Chris Weitz has blamed studio New Line for "emasculating" his Golden Compass adaptation. Full Article at Digital Spy