Book Club: The Next Chapter review – smirking sequel as the squad head for Italy
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda et al go on a bookish holiday after keeping their reading club going through lockdown, but jokes are thin on the ground
January 2020
Paulo Coelho deletes draft of children's book collaboration with Kobe Bryant
Alchemist author says basketball player’s death in helicopter crash means book has ‘lost its reason’
July 2019
Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho 'removed mention of Kurdistan'
Publisher and translator express shock that version of Eleven Minutes published in Turkey had reference cut
September 2018
Novelist Paulo Coelho on Brazil's National Museum fire: 'The country is in tears'
Why did South America’s most fantastic museum only attract 150,000 visitors a year? The government has neglected Brazil’s history, says the country’s biggest novelist, but so have the people
November 2016
Digested read
The Spy by Paulo Coelho – digested read
John Crace strips Paulo Coelho’s novel about Mata Hari – executed as a spy in 1917 – to its naked essence
June 2015
Books blog
Paulo Coelho tells readers: buy my book after you've read it – if you liked it
Idris Elba set for Laurence Fishburne's film of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
May 2015
10 authors who excel on the internet
Writers are finding imaginative ways to negotiate the new era of electronic intimacy with readers. Here are some of the best
January 2015
Books blog
Like Paulo Coelho? Alberto Manguel unlikely to like you
Celebrated bibliophile tells Jaipur literature festival his books library is an autobiography, and if The Alchemist is in yours he will recoil
August 2014
Digested read
Adultery by Paulo Coelho – digested read
John Crace takes the Brazilian guru's novel-ful of sexual and personal discovery and distils its message in 700 words
June 2014
Books blog
Play the literary World Cup: nominate your all-time top team
Paulo Coelho says he won't attend 2014 World Cup 'disaster'
May 2014
Books blog
10 authors who are brilliant at Twitter
They can write books, but can they tweet? Here are 10 authors you should follow
January 2014
This much I know
Paulo Coelho: 'I had an enormous amount of fun being a hippy'
The Brazilian-born writer, 66, on wealth, travel and having coffee with strangers
March 2013
Digested read
Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho – digested read
The G2 interview
Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure
August 2012
Books blog
Paulo Coelho's attack on Ulysses insults readers
Paulo Coelho: James Joyce's Ulysses is 'harmful' to literature
July 2012
Book 'pirate' goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
Alison Flood: The actions of the fantasy author, who published the photo and details of The First Confessor pirate, have divided digital opinion
February 2012
Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books
Multimillion-selling author links with Pirate Bay, saying 'the more people "pirate" a book, the better'
