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From romance to real life, ‘cli-fi’ and even origami, we look at the 2023 book trends.

JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', was published in 1997. Now, 25 years later, a rare edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series which has never been released to the public was auctioned recently for £8,000 (approximately INR 8,04,680).

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.

The art historian has just won Waterstones Book of the Year for The Story of Art without Men. She talks to Hattie Crisell

The third and final part of the Neil Gaiman adaptation is here, complete with metaphysical musings on life and death, heaven and hell

The Scottish actor appeared at the Waterstones branch on Sauchiehall Street to sign copies of his new book Waypoint, which details his rise to the silver screen.

The pupil at Royal Grammar School Newcastle has co-written a book called Dunicorns which is now on sale at Seven Stories

Assistant Minister for Health Ged Kearney will chair the new National Women's Health Council, which will address the range of poorer health outcomes women experience comparative to men.

Other lives: Biographer who studied the life of Edith Sitwell and also wrote a history of vodka