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Author, who takes home $60,000, says finding out he won Australia’s most esteemed literary prize left him ‘in such shock that I lost all feeling in my hands and legs’

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‘It’s an incredibly varied donation. He clearly held on to his books, some of them are quite old,’ says bookshop worker

Oscar-winning writer-director, known for Jojo Rabbit and Thor sequels, attached to new take on comic book character

The controversial film-maker has previously written short stories and essays but this story about a middle-aged Jewish author whose marriage is on the rocks is his first published novel

Gibson, who was Colorado’s poet laureate and diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, died at their home on Monday

HBO releases first glimpse of new Boy Who Lived as cameras roll on small screen adaptation of JK Rowling’s books

Author of Um defeito de cor wins seat in 128-year-old institution long dominated by white men

Penguin said release date of On Winter Hill would be changed in order to ‘support the author’ after allegations that Raynor Winn lied in her bestselling memoir

Around 300 people gathered outside Melbourne's oldest bookshop, Hill of Content, to help it move to its new location just 130 metres down the road. The store first opening in 1922 and the three-storey, heritage-listed building it occupied for 103 years was sold for $5.3m last year, with the bookshop’s owners forced to start searching for a new home. Diana Johnson, who owns Hill of Content with her husband, Duncan Johnson, said the human chain would pass 17,000 books up to the new store

• Hundreds form human chain to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop relocate after more than a century