Australian author Colleen McCullough, best known for her novel The Thorn Birds, dies aged 77.

Helen Macdonald wins the Costa Book of the Year Award for 2014 for her personal account of trying to train a goshawk after the death of her father.

Watch interviews with the five Costa prize-winning authors waiting to see if their title will be named Book of the Year on 27 January.

These amazing images from the 1960s feature children dipping their hands in boiling water, cutting open batteries and using sharp knives without supervision in the name of science.

These astonishing pictures show how Chetham Library in Manchester, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously began work on the Communist Manifesto in 1845, has remained largely unchanged.

Comedian David Walliams led the sales of children's books in the UK last year, generating more than £7m in 2014.

David Harsent wins the prestigious TS Eliot poetry prize for his eleventh collection Fire Songs - his first victory in five nominations.

An English teacher from south Wales wins the Costa poetry prize for his first book, while Ali Smith's How To Be Both wins the best novel award.

Kindles may be the popular way to read nowadays, but photographer Franck Bohbot is celebrating the humble book with some amazing images of libraries around the world.

Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist comes top of a public vote to be named Specsavers Book of the Year.