Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

RARE PHOTOS: 4 - The Real Truth

Harry Potter Conjurer JK Rowling's Net Worth: Stuff Of Magical Realism Lore

J.K. Rowling, the British author who conjured up the hugely popular Harry Potter franchise, has made a billion-dollar fortune from seven novels translated into 80 languages, which sold 500 million copies, and eight blockbuster films made out of it.

International Business Times

A Cold Spell by Max Leonard review – from cube to crisis

A fascinating exploration of how ice has shaped human existence

The Guardian - UK

The best childrens books of 2023, from The Bowerbird to Impossible Creatures

With authors such as Katherine Rundell, Julia Donaldson and Frank Cottrell Boyce, these are the most brilliant gifts for the smaller readers in your life

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

British Library celebrates the surging popularity of fantasy fiction

Authors’ sketches, early editions and movie props all feature in a new exhibition exploring the long history of the genre

The Guardian - UK

Bloomsbury’s fantasy list helps it to record £17.7m first-half profits

Publisher to double dividend after demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Slavoj Žižek’s cultural highlights

The Slovenian cultural theorist on enjoying books that contradict him, Boots Riley’s hilarious TV series, and his ‘terrifying’ taste in food

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A joyful picture-book account of family life; a magical fantasy series begins; an addictive epistolary friendship; fast-paced feminist YA; and more

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

My cultural day out on the Sussex Art Shuttle

With next week’s Turner prize opening in Eastbourne, we try a hop-on, hop-off bus service that takes art lovers around the area’s cultural hotspots

The Guardian - UK

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution

A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life

The Guardian - UK

Very early version of JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book fails to sell at auction

Auctioneer said it would have been ‘wrong’ to sell it for ‘too little’

The Independent UK

Rarest Harry Potter Book Ever Published Could Fetch Thousands At Auction

Only 15 copies were produced and they were never offered for sale.

Zenger

Rare Harry Potter book could 'fetch up to £12k' after surviving devastating blaze

The book is being sold after it survived a devastating blaze.

The National (Scotland)

‘You’re not getting any’ – the secret sexual signals in the Bloomsbury Group’s clothes

The Bloomsbury Group weren’t just artistic and sexual pioneers. They also sparked a sartorial revolution. We meet the author of Bring No Clothes, a revealing book about fashion’s queer trailblazers

The Guardian - UK

The best house museums for 20th-century interiors, from a PoMo funhouse to Britain’s answer to Villa Savoye

Forget fusty stately homes — these domestic spaces are ripe with the relatable tastes of artists, architects and aesthetes

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

'What do my screams while reading this book suggest?' A cultural history of screaming fails to hit the high notes

One of the great legacies of the development of cultural studies in the 1960s has been the academic acceptance of seriously analysing everyday things. We engage with these things to reveal unseen tensions – political, ideological and social – that can then be mapped against what cultural arbiters generally deem…

The Guardian - UK

‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory

Bluemoose publishes no more than 10 books a year but Kevin Duffy knows how to pick a winner

The Independent UK

U.S. publishing executive dies in a boat crash off Italy's Amalfi Coast

An U.S. publishing executive has died in a boating accident off Italy’s Amalfi Coast

The Guardian - UK

Bloomsbury USA president dies in speedboat collision in Italy

Adrienne Vaughan was on family holiday and reportedly fell overboard when speedboat collided with a sailboat

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Italy boat tragedy: Skipper faces manslaughter investigation after head of Bloomsbury US killed

The president of Bloomsbury USA Adrienne Vaughan died when a motorboat collided with a tourist sailboat

Wallpaper

Exhibition to explore the Bloomsbury Group through fashion

Supported by Dior, Charleston’s ‘Bring No Clothes’ explores the Bloomsbury Group’s use of – and influence on – fashion, featuring works by Dior, Fendi, Comme des Garçons and more, alongside original clothing and ephemera

The Guardian - UK

The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

The Guardian - UK

Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount review – a wonderfully wry field guide to autocrats

With tremendous wit and wisdom, the former head of Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit identifies the qualities particular to dictators – and warns against consigning such people to history

Nottingham Post

Harry Potter book withdrawn from library and sold for 30p fetches £10,500 at auction

It was snapped up after being withdrawn from a library

Wales Online

Harry Potter book bought for 30p sells for £10,500

It was snapped up after being withdrawn from a library

The Independent UK

Incredibly rare Harry Potter book sells for more than £10,000 after being bought for 30p

A savvy buyer found the book after it was sold for pennies by Wolverhampton Library

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.