Harper Lee

When a writer is born into a family, the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz said, that family is finished. Yes, but when a writer dies that family's troubles have only just begun. Wills may be contradictory and instructions to literary executors confused. Works left behind on computers or in desk drawers may be of uncertain status: were they intended for publication or not?  Read more

I meet Paretsky on the London leg of the publicity tour for Brush Back, her 17th VI novel. In person delicate and elegant, she's also the owner of one of the world's great voices: so rich and languid that I have to remind myself more than once to listen to the words as well as the music.  Read more

Sales of audiobooks have doubled in the last five years, thanks to the popularity of digital downloads and a host of famous faces signing up to read them, figured from the Publishers Association show.

Statistics gathered by the association show that British readers spent £10million of audiobooks last year, a 25 per cent rise from the amount invested in the genre in 2013.  Read more