Bookseller Borders UK is considering calling in administrators after becoming the latest British high street victim of recession.

The winner of the 2009 William Hill Sports Book of the Year will be announced at Waterstone's, Piccadilly, London from 2.30pm on Thursday, 26th November, 2009.

A diverse group of five non-fiction authors have been named as finalists for the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the newest, most significant and largest monetary award of its kind. The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature awards

The BBC'S governing body has stymied expansion plans at BBC Worldwide, blocking the commercial division from any further takeover deals except in "exceptional circumstances".

A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which was kept in a toilet in Oxfordshire, has sold for nearly twice the expected price.

Jack Torrance's little boy Danny was last seen recuperating in Maine after escaping the insane evil of the Overlook Hotel, but Stephen King is now plotting a sequel to The Shining which would age the clairvoyant boy to 40 and

The English author's work has gone on display at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

A book about teenage suicide, a fantasy novel by a former SNP press officer and a picture book by a Viz cartoonist have been named as the Scottish children's books of the year.

Borders UK, the troubled book chain, is hours away from appointing administrators unless a white-knight buyer emerges.

Despite hopes that the Royal Mail and unions had buried the hatchet and were looking to the future with regards to a long-term agreement, sources close to the Communication Workers Union have let it be known that talks are stalling