So Borders is up for sale in the UK: why has this happened, and what happens next?

A change of management in the US, allied to continuing underperformance domestically, clearly has much to do with it. Like HMV in the UK, Borders in the US is finding it tough to make money in the all-round entertainment business, with music under...

The opening chapter of Kim Edwards' début novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Penguin, April), sets a tragic scene. On a winter night in the 1960s, a doctor gives away his newborn twin daughter Phoebe when he realises she has Down's syndrome--a decision that will affect him and the rest of his family for decades...

Last Christmas may well be remembered as the year of celebrity flops, but for Hannah Black it was a career making season. While autobiographies by the likes of Gary Barlow, David Blunkett and Michael Barrymore underperformed in the light of their acquisition price tags, Black's book from Peter Kay, The Sound of Laughter, became the...