Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) will be turned into a BBC2 costume drama by the man who brought Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to the big screen.

Peter Straughan, who co-wrote the script for the John Le Carré adaptation, will turn Mantel’s novel about Tudor...

Profits at HarperCollins surged £25.3m due to "exceptional rights income" in its most recent set of financial results filed at Companies House.

For the year ending 30th June, operating profit increased to £29.1m. Turnover was up from £242.4m in 2009 to £242.8m in 2010. The results include the UK,...

World Book Day helped the book trade bounce back last week, with a 10% leap in expenditure over the seven days to 6th March, propelled by a 17% increase in the number of books sold as children cashed in their £1 WBD vouchers.

But it was not necessarily the WBD flip-books that they spent the vouchers on, with the six WBD titles...