Romanian prosecutors said Friday they had recovered around 200 centuries-old stolen books which disappeared from storage in Britain in 2017, including works by Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Dante Alighieri.

Former US president Barack Obama on Thursday announced the publication in November of the first half of his memoirs, "A Promised Land" -- two weeks after the election pitting Donald Trump against Joe Biden.

J.K. Rowling said one of the characters in her new crime novel, a male killer who on one occasion disguises himself as a woman to abduct a victim, was loosely based on two real life murderers.

"The Beatles: Get Back" will be released next August as a companion to a film by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson documenting the creation of the 1970 "Let It Be" album, the publishers said on Wednesday.

Four debut novelists were on Tuesday shortlisted alongside Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga and Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste for the Booker Prize for best English-language fiction, to be awarded in November.

Best-selling "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has stoked anger in the transgender community by including a cross-dressing serial killer in her latest novel.

Choosing a more moderate approach, I sometimes question myself, am I not Muslim enough if I don’t follow this hijrah trend?

Singapore's independent bookshop BooksActually will be closing its Yong Siak Street store and moving entirely online.

A gay-themed children's book about two princes who fall in love and get married has sparked protests by parents in Taiwan, after it was added to a government-backed reading program.

Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's plague novel in a plague year, has won the 25th Women's Prize for Fiction.

The library is slated to reopen to the public on Sept. 14.

Apart from offering Braille books, the Shanxi Library in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, is trying its best to satisfy the needs of the visually impaired by reading books aloud and playing movies accompanied by real-time narration.

Educators and activists in Bali are working with locals to conserve lontar manuscripts and educate them on how best to treat them – by reading and sharing their knowledge.

A young writer’s new book explores how the spice trade shaped Indonesia’s social and political structure.

Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf has won Chile's highest literature award for helping to bring the southern indigenous people's oral tradition to a wider public, the country's culture minister announced Tuesday.

The French translation of Agatha Christie's hit novel "And Then There Were None" will change its title to remove a racially-charged word already dropped from the British edition decades ago, its editor said Wednesday.

Australian journalist Deborah Cassrels gets the diversity that characterizes Indonesia by reporting from Bali rather than Jakarta. In Gods and Demons, she shares the story of her professional as well as personal odyssey in getting a better understanding of Indonesia.

At a time when good news is hard to come by, a breath of fresh air comes from Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak. Her novel Fall Baby won Best Literary Work at the 2020 Singapore Book Awards.

Vikings were known for brutality and chauvinism as they pillaged their way across Europe, but a new book has claimed that some of the Nordic warriors might have secretly been transgender men.

Fall Baby is Laksmi’s first English language novel.

A collection of antiquarian cookery books will be offered as part of Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts sale, which will take place on Aug. 19 in London. 

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's "love story" memoirs has topped the country's bestsellers list for a third straight week, according to the rankings Friday.

The Venezuelan literature prize Romulo Gallegos was once one of the most prestigious in Latin America and the Spanish-language world.

Kim Jong Un said his relationship with Donald Trump was like a "fantasy film", according to the publishers of a new book on the US president set to unveil 25 private letters exchanged between the two leaders.

A book consisting of 80 poems written by the late celebrated poet Sapardi Djoko Damono for his wife Sonya Sondakh was officially launched by publisher Gramedia Pustaka Utama (GPU) on Monday. 

In the pre-smartphone era, before the existence of voice commands and virtual assistants, finding information meant hitting the books. For many Indonesians, those books were likely the Buku Pintar (Smart Book) series by the one and only Iwan Gayo.

The Canadian novelist has announced that she will release her new collection of poetry, “Dearly”, on November 10.

Available on its official store on Tokopedia, Big Bad Wolf's online sale will be held from Aug. 7 to 17. 

The American horror master has announced that his latest crime novel, Later, will arrive in bookstores across the world in March 2021.

Goethe-Institut Indonesien hosted a webinar on the curation of historical content in digital media that highlighted the importance of providing public access to cultural data.