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  Bill Bryson: I'll cheer for England, but I won't risk citizenship test

  29 May 2010: Author Bill Bryson tells Hay Festival he is 'too cowardly' to take UK citizenship test, but will support adopted nation in World Cup

• Maldives president calls for direct action over climate change

  29 May 2010:

  President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives told a Hay festival audience that grassroots 'street action' was needed to change the focus of the debate on climate change in the US

• Ian McEwan collects award for novel that tackles climate change

  28 May 2010: At the Guardian Hay festival, Ian McEwan receives Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for his new novel Solar

• Jean M Auel announces final Earth's Children novel

  28 May 2010: The last novel in Jean M Auel's epic prehistoric series, The Land of Painted Caves, will be published in March 2011

• Guardian children's fiction prize shows wealth of literature for under-10s

  28 May 2010: Balance shifts in longlist for award dominated recently by books for teenagers

• Jeffery Deaver given licence to thrill with new James Bond book

  28 May 2010: US author commissioned by Ian Fleming's estate to continue British spy's adventures

• Nick Clegg among speakers at Guardian Hay festival

  26 May 2010: The Hay festival has signed up many political stars and new MPs as well as its usual galaxy of literary giants

• Picador launches prize for unpublished poets

  26 May 2010: Entrants will submit selection of work to be judged by award-winning poet Don Paterson, with advance and publication the prize

• Samuel Johnson shortlist spurns war stories and biographies

  26 May 2010:

  Nonfiction prize judges choose books about cooking, maths and fishing over more traditional fare

• Jackie Brown characters to hit big screen again, without Tarantino

  25 May 2010: Elmore Leonard's The Switch, which first introduced villainous characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, to be adapted for film

• Towel Day: Douglas Adams remembered across the globe

  25 May 2010: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans celebrate author's life by carrying towels

• Ian Thomson wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize

  25 May 2010: The Dead Yard, Ian Thomson's book about the gritty underbelly of Jamaica, hailed for its candid portrait of a 'corrupted Eden'

• Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar

  25 May 2010: Booker winner bags pig and champagne for 'laugh-out-loud' climate change novel

• Century-long wait for Mark Twain's autobiography is over

  24 May 2010: The University of California is publishing Mark Twain's memoirs, after the author requested that they be held by his estate until he was 'dead, unaware and indifferent'

• Stephen Fry to judge Guardian Hay festival's Twitter competition

  23 May 2010:

  This year's Guardian Hay festival will include a prize, judged by Stephen Fry, for 'the most beautiful tweet' ever written

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