If your own tastes run more to Henry James than E L James, you will find all this talk of tribes to be very far from your own understanding of the value of literature. If so, it's not all bad news.

Best-selling authors including Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Lee Child have condemned "fraudulent" writers caught praising their own work on Amazon. ...

Crime writer Ian Rankin has confirmed Inspector Rebus will return in a new novel out later this year called Standing in Another Man's Grave. The Ed...

For a start, most of the exciting things that are done by the hero are unprofessional, or downright illegal. If a psychologist ever hid under a bed to get evidence, as Robson Green's character does in Wire in the Blood he would be banned from any further contact with the police and probably driven out of the profession.

Stephen Fry has been cast as an art expert who gets mixed up in an underworld heist in a new TV film based on a novel by Rebus writer Ian Rankin. T...

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has signed a deal to publish her first novel for adults. The writer, whose teenage wizard tales have been internatio...