STEPHEN 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this year’s Dundee International Book Prize, which at £10,000 for the winner, offers the biggest cash prize for any unpublished work in the country.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 Edi

Brian Selznick attending the royal film performance of Hugo in 3D at the Odeon Leicester Square in November. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images 'Something magical is happening'. Photograph: Johansen Krause/Brian Selznick 'People use computers more and mo

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Julia Golding, Eleanor Updale and Wilkie Collins are all on the Book Doctor's reading list for a fan of Victorian mysteries This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 16.48 GMT on Tuesday 7 Febru

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 hav

The novelist Philip Pullman is among thousands of writers condemning government proposals to restrict the fees they receive from their books used by schools, colleges or universities. The author, pictured, of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials said t

Hundreds of writers including children's laureate and Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson, Philip Pullman and Anne Fine are protesting the government's plans to amend educational copyright, with many saying they will be forced to stop writing for schools if

In Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Yale, $20), a new collection of photographs and interviews, editor Leah Price asks 13 authors, including three couples, about the books and bookcases in their homes. Author Philip Pullman says that when m

Costa is the odd man out among the big literary prizes. More populist than Man Booker, but not as cool as Orange, it still hasn't outgrown its parochial, ale‑house origins as the Whitbread prize. On Tuesday, Costa will be on display once again in all its

Hearing production is about to get underway on terrific-sounding flick called “Great Scott”. As the title suggests, the film encompasses a “Back to the Future” connection; in it, a teenager in 1980′s Manchester, England falls so in love with Robert Zemec

Children's books are a preparation for adulthood, says children's author, Philip Womack. The best children's literature reflects and distorts grown-up life, allowing children to get used to troubling thoughts, before returning to safety in the last chapt

The turkey is all gone and as the countdown to 2012 begins, SFX answers the question on everyone’s lips: what’s on telly? Eternal Law, the new show from the makers of Life On Mars, starts on Thursday 5 January. The audio adap of The Lion, The Witch And T

26 December 2011 Last updated at 04:53 ET The Oxford writer Philip Pullman hopes write for The Phoenix A publisher is stepping back into the children's comic book market, hoping to succeed after the economic crisis put paid to its previous venture. The f

Alongside the formidable collections—featuring Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund Whit—a

SOS Brent Libraries have lost in their court of appeal battle against closures Three judges, Lord Justice Pill, Lord Justice Richards and Lord Justice Davis upheld an earlier high court decision that rejected the campaigners' claims that the proposed

Brent council plans to shut down six libraries in North London Campaigners say they will consider taking case to the Supreme Court Three senior judges yesterday slapped down campaigners who tried to stop library closures. The appeal judges said it was ‘f

In the news Daniel Craig to return as James Bond in Skyfall Read more... Daniel Craig too busy to shoot extra Dream House scenes Read more... Daniel Wroughton Craig was born in 1968 to Olivia, an art teacher, and Timothy, who worked in the Navy but also

This year, the celebrated children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth turned 50. It’s a fantastic story about a boy named Milo “who didn’t know what to do with himself — not just sometimes, but always.” It’s a book about being bored and uninterested, and disco

Even as Christopher Hitchens weakened from cancer over the past year and a half, the work he contributed to The New York Times Book Review was as strong, if not stronger, than ever. The last piece he wrote for us assessed the playwright David Mamet’s acc

December 13, update. Thanks everyone for the book recommendations, and keep them coming. I've also had requests to post them here or email them to people. Sorry, no. I'm not going to be the one person through which everyone else has to talk to each other