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.

Acclaimed account of the author’s journey home to Libya in search of his missing father’s story is the first nonfiction book to win the £20,000 prize

Reality is turned on its head in Cardiff "as if Roald Dahl is at the helm" to celebrate the author

Celebrating the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the comic book world's version of the Oscars