Book industry figures around the world have expressed their sadness at the death of bestselling horror writer James Herbert at home in Sussex yesterday (20th March). Herbert was 69.

The author is understood to have been in good health recently, with events planned to support the publication of his new paperback, Ash,...

Basic book contracts should grant a fixed-term licence in a book rather than rights for the length of copyright, agent Peter Straus has said.

But publishers have argued that such a change would hit advances and damage their ability to invest in titles.

In an...

A Twitter account impersonating author John le Carré has been suspended after publishing a malicious tweet claiming J K Rowling had died.

Le Carré's agent Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown (pictured) alerted Twitter to the account, @JLeCarre, which claimed to be the "official" account of the novelist and had...

My favourite moment in cinema history is when Lawrence of Arabia convinces his friend Sherif Ali to do the impossible: attack the fortress harbour of Aqaba from the rear, through the punishing Nefud desert, with only 50 unreliable mercenaries. His thinking is that the huge guns face the sea to protect the Suez Canal and that they cannot be...