HarperCollins has apologised for offending indigenous Australians after complaints that an upcoming edition of The Daring Book for Girls breaks Aboriginal taboos by encouraging girls to play the didgeridoo, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Mark Rose, head of the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association, said the...

The authors of a book which claimed that Salman Rushdie was nicknamed "Scruffy" by his police protection officers have admitted there were falsehoods in the manuscript and have made amendments accordingly, according to Rushdie's lawyer. The publisher of On Her Majesty's Service, John Blake, hopes to release a revised...

 A federal appeals court in New York has reversed a ruling that awarded the son and granddaughter of John Steinbeck the rights to 10 of his works, including The Grapes of Wrath, the Associated Press reported.

According to the appeals court, a lower court judge made a mistake by giving the rights to Thomas Steinbeck, the author...

A tall, spare man in a traditional monk’s habit, Abbot Christopher Jamison of Worth Abbey cuts an unlikely figure as a reality TV star, but three million viewers watched “The Monastery”, the 2005 BBC series set in the abbey which followed five men from non-religious backgrounds as they spent 40 days with the monks.

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