A supernaturally tinged barnyard manual has won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.

Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, widely seen as a grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82, publisher Penguin said on Friday.

An English-language edition of a 2010 book co-authored by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, will be published in May.

The naming of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis has inspired the enthusiasm not only of many Roman Catholics, but also of a publisher planning to re-launch a book about him by his official biographer, Sergio Rubin.

Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas, not yet 18, will publish her second memoir next month, publisher Zondervan said on Tuesday.

In comics, the first issue is where the story starts and the legend begins.

Powerful Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg is out to make herself less of an anomaly as she launches a campaign to inspire women to pursue their passions at work and at home.

Marvel Entertainment's renowned heroes find themselves in an unfamiliar and unsettling position in the pages of the just-released “Age of Ultron” series: defeated, demoralized and desperate.

We see new artwork and children books all the time. Sure, they are pretty. But if you are looking for a good book, you aren't looking only for pretty pictures and colors. You are looking for meaning — a story, some original drawings, something that you can connect to.

An investigation by a U.S. academic has uncovered 50 unpublished poems by British writer Rudyard Kipling in locations including a New York house and in the papers of a former cruise-line owner, it was revealed Tuesday.