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Yes, it's called My Independent Bookshop, but what does Penguin Random House's new site do for booksellers?

Why translated ebooks are no longer foreign to publishers – how to pick and choose the best

With more digital works than ever being published in translation, it pays to let foreign houses sort the wheat from the chaff

Unseen Octavia E Butler stories recovered

Two works by the late science-fiction great have been found among her papers, and are set for publication this summer

Pelican books take flight again

As the non-fiction Penguin imprint relaunches, Paul Laity tells the story of the blue‑spined books that inspired generations of self-improvers – and transformed the publishing world

Gabriel García Márquez: new extract hints at writer’s ‘last legacy’

Spanish newspaper publishes chapter from unseen manuscript We'll See Each Other in August, which could be the final work from the late Nobel laureate

Sue Townsend, creator of hapless and much-loved Adrian Mole, dies aged 68

Novelist achieved worldwide success with publication of her best-known work The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4

Which 21st-century novel will still be read in 100 years?

John Crace flicks back through his 14 years of Digested Reads and finds the book that is most likely to become a classic – and the one that almost certainly won't

Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard, dies at 86

• Writer co-founded The Paris Review
• Last novel, In Paradise, to be published on Tuesday

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Little-seen Seamus Heaney poems published in literary ‘map of Dublin’

Anthology If Ever You Go includes rare works set – unusually for the Nobel laureate – in his adopted city

Gone With the Wind prequel to tell Mammy’s story

Donald McCaig novel relates the untold back story of Scarlett O'Hara's devoted house slave