As a child of the 1950s and a teenager in the 1960s, I grew up reading the Tom Swift Jr. series. This series was a sequel to the original Tom Swift series of adolescent literature published decades earlier and written by various writers under the collecti

Public libraries in Britain are dropping their hallowed rules of silence and bans on eating food to help attract new members. Library membership numbers have tumbled in recent years as more people turn to the internet to do their research and other forms

Stephan Niederwieser is author of more than twenty books – novels, short stories and erotic guides. After working for different German publishing companies, he is now the new Head of the photobook department at Bruno Gmünder Publishing.

Queen Elizabeth II has knighted the controversial British author Salman Rushdie, an award which caused protests by Muslims around the world when it was announced last year.

If rhyme doesn't pay, then – when it comes to authorial bank accounts – crime more often does. While picking his way through a tangled domestic life (which included, of course, the childhood of his Oscar-winning son, Daniel), the poet Cecil Day-Lewis