What book would you take to a desert island?

Suggestions for your holiday reading.....

The best-selling children's author dies.

Lauren Child says it is harder for girls to be equalas she is named the new Children

The winner of the first Orange Prize for women

Ebooks or paperbacks? A kindle reader and a book lover fight it out

Your bookshelf was stocked with Funnybones, Goosebumps, and Biff, Chip, and Kipper

Hitting shelves next week are a picture book about “the smartest dog in the world,” a middle grade novel in which a boy confronts his grandfather’s dementia, and a guide to life by a high-profile YouTube

Her books have sold nearly two million copies worldwide, brought literary tourists flocking to Naples, attracted fans including Zadie Smith and Alice Sebold, and inspired fashions and recipes. Now the Italian author of the “Neapolitan novels” is in the running for her first major international literary prize. The only problem is that nobody knows – or is telling, at least – the identity of the mysterious woman writing under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante.

Into the Water is Paula Hawkins’s difficult second novel, except that actually it’s her sixth.