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  Narnia producer Perry Moore dies at 39

  22 Feb 2011: Producer and director who helped bring The Chronicles of Narnia to the big screen has died in New York

• Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status

  22 Feb 2011: Bunhill Fields in north London, where nonconformists, radicals and dissenters are buried, is declared Grade 1 park

• Genghis Khan workplace manual dominates oddest book title shortlist

  21 Feb 2011: Khan mastered 'successful people management', says author. Now he must overcome colour-coded canines to scoop prize

• Lost Daphne du Maurier stories discovered

  21 Feb 2011:

  Bookseller unearths five early Daphne du Maurier tales including a risqué short story entitled 'The Doll'

• Bleak Expectations: BBC radio comedy moving to television

  21 Feb 2011: The BBC's popular Radio 4 Dickens spoof to make move to BBC2 as Old Shop of Stuff. By Ben Dowell

• Ian McEwan attacks 'great injustice' in Israel

  20 Feb 2011: British novelist launches powerful attack as he accepts book award in Jerusalem

• Sarah Brown's No 10 diary tells of battle over bacon rolls

  20 Feb 2011: Wife of former PM says she wishes she had spoken up more during 'surreal' life in Downing Street

• The Help author sued for unfair use of maid's life story

  18 Feb 2011:

  Kathryn Stockett faces lawsuit from woman who claims character in novel is unauthorised portrait of her

• Ian McEwan to accept Israel book award but criticise occupation

  18 Feb 2011:

  Novelist defends his acceptance of prize after calls to reject it in protest at occupation of Palestinian territories

• JK Rowling's life story to be made into film

  18 Feb 2011: Harry Potter creator's rags-to-riches journey to be dramatised in forthcoming TV biopic Strange Magic

• BBC to buy out Lonely Planet

  18 Feb 2011: BBC Worldwide to pay £42m to complete controversial purchase of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet. By Mark Sweney

• Children's authors dominate list of favourite UK library books

  18 Feb 2011:

  Seven of the UK's top ten most borrowed authors write books for children

• Nicolas Sarkozy triggers row with Mexico over French kidnapper

  17 Feb 2011: France's president accused of acting like a banana republic dictator by demanding Mexico release Florence Cassez

• Raymond Chandler's remains reunited with his wife's ashes

  17 Feb 2011: More than 50 years after her death, a fan's efforts have finally realised the noir master's wish to be buried alongside 'the beat of my heart'

• Borders bankruptcy spreads to US and Australia

  17 Feb 2011: Wave of bad news for high-street book trade across the world also sees Angus & Robertson chain go under
  

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