New data suggests that the borrowing of erotic fiction from UK public libraries has leapt by 500%, in what is being called the 'Fifty Shades' effect.

Footage of Dame Margot Fonteyn dancing in a long-unseen performance of Sleeping Beauty will feature as part of BBC Two and Four's short ballet season.

Flood and Alan Moulder win UK producer of the year at the Music Producers Guild Awards, automatically earning a Brit.

Penguin India defends its decision to recall and destroy copies of a book on Hinduism by a top US scholar, saying it had to respect the laws of the land.

A ring that belonged to Jane Austen goes on display for the first time since a campaign to stop US singer Kelly Clarkson taking it out of the UK.

Conservation scientists in Chicago produce a stunning visualisation of how they think a Renoir painting might have looked before its colours faded.

Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr - Papa Walton - in the long-running US television series, has died at the age of 85.

Relaunched music title NME records its lowest sales figures yet as Good Housekeeping becomes the top women's monthly, according to ABC magazine circulation figures.