JK Rowling has admitted she might be persuaded to write another Harry Potter book - in ten years time. The author revealed there have been times when she has thought about penning an eighth book in the hugely popular series - Telegraph
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi has been appointed a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Born in 1954 in London, Kureishi had a Pakistani father and an English mother, and studied philosophy at King's College, London
She may be less of a household name than JK Rowling, but Jacqueline Wilson - who has become a dame in the New Year Honours - is arguably Britain's most popular children's writer. In a career spanning 35 years, she has sold more than 30 million books and, for the past four years, has been the most-borrowed author in British libraries
The inaugural Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival which will take place between Wednesday, 30th April and Saturday, 3rd May 2008. This exciting Festival, set in the home of Shakespeare, the world's greatest writer, will include author events and booksignings, panel discussions, writers' workshops as well as being an opportunity for local writers to show their work. 
The Crap Family Christmas Bible by Ruth Graham - "Tis the season to be jolly, but we all know it doesn't work like that, so stuff spending time with the family this Christmas with all that arguing, shopping and stress. Stay at home, play Scrooge and revel in this mean-spirited look at all the things you hate about yuletide. Nearly everyone has to 'do' Christmas, and from the popularity of programmes like "Grumpy Old Women at Christmas", we gather nobody is particularly happy about it. So what better way to let off steam than read about the trials and tribulations of others in this seasonal sneer to all that's rubbish about Christmas?"
The British Library has acquired the archives of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, including his correspondence with leading figures in theater and literature. The library paid $2.24 million for the archive, which includes Pinter's collection of play scripts which has been on loan to the library since 1993. The archive includes more than 150 boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, programs and e-mails, and a draft of "The Queen of all the Fairies," an unpublished memoir of Pinter's youth, the library said Tuesday
A social group has raised more than GBP500 for children diagnosed with brain tumours. The Owls, a women's social club at RAF Cottesmore, has organised a series of fundraising events this year - including coffee mornings, ladies' nights and craft fairs - to raise money for Stamford-based Anna's Hope charity. As well as raising funds for the charity, which supports children with brain tumours, The Owls also made a donation of books for a children's ward in Addenbrookes Hospital
Former politician Michael Portillo is to chair next year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction judging panel. A previous judge of the Costa book prize, he is now a pundit on BBC One politics show This Week. Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli, Ottakar's bookshops founder James Heneage, critic Alex Clark and novelist Louise Doughty complete the jury
Anne Enright, author of this year’s Man Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering, is preparing for a gruelling world tour in 2008. Her publishers, Jonathan Cape (Random House), are currently putting together her 2008 schedule which includes visits to Canada, USA, Hong Kong, Australia, Columbia, New Zealand and Italy. In the UK Enright is also expected to be speaking at a host of other key literary festivals
The God Delusion has been voted Audible.co.uk's Audiobook of the Year by the download site's customers. Richard Dawkins's atheist manifesto garnered just over 3,000 votes, seeing off competition from a shortlist that included Ian Rankin's The Naming of the Dead, Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader and Andrew Marr's A History of Modern Britain. Narrated by Dawkins and his wife Lalla Ward, the Audible exclusive unabridged audio version of The God Delusion has been in the site's Top 10 since it was released in late 2006. Audible said its listeners enjoyed the two-reader format as it brought to life the book's complex ideas. Audible will present awards to Dawkins, Ward and publisher Random House on 18th December in Oxford