While the rumour mill works overtime cranking out the names of potential frontrunners for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie (Ryan Gosling and Amanda Seyfried? Kristen Stewart and Alexander Skarsgard? Ian Somerhalder and Emilia Clarke?), one thing's for certain: The publishing phenom has spawned an entire sub-industry looking to cash in on the Fifth Sh

His hair is orange and his memoir is a giant stew of vanity, ego, pride, swagger, arrogance, bluster, bombast and braggadocio.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s debut adult novel is packed with foul language and graphic descriptions of sex, drug-taking and self-harm.

Arnold Schwarzenegger says his estranged wife has not read his upcoming memoir in which he discusses the secret child he fathered with a family housekeeper.

Comic book legend Stan Lee has sparked fears for his health after pulling out of all his upcoming personal appearances due to a "very serious circumstance".

Stephen King has thrilled horror fans by announcing the release date for his upcoming sequel to The Shining

Professor X, the Marvel comic book character who formed and led the superhero mutant team known as X-Men, has been killed off.

So Billy Crystal's receiving a $4 million payday to write a book about aging.

Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who helped usher in the sexual revolution, died on Monday at the age of 90.

Danny Boyle's hit 2000 movie The Beach is to be adapted into a TV series.

Actor Johnny Depp has turned editor in an effort to aid the release of one of folk singer Woody Guthrie's last novels.

Producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti have won a pitched competition to produce the movie based on “50 Shades of Grey,” the best-selling erotic novel that sparked a bidding war in Hollywood, Universal Pictures and Focus Features announced Monday.

Writer and film director Nora Ephron, known for work on movies such as “When Harry Met Sally,” has died in New York at age 71, according to media reports Tuesday night, hours after it was first revealed that she was gravely ill and near death.

Former The Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash star Graham Nash is penning his memoir after signing a new deal with publishers Random House.

Ray Bradbury, a giant of American literature who helped popularize science fiction with works such as “The Martian Chronicles,” died on Tuesday at age 91, his publisher said on Wednesday.

Whitney Houston's mother has vowed to go "behind the headlines" and give fans a glimpse into the late superstar's "brightest and darkest moments" in a candid new book about her daughter's life.

British author E.L. James' saucy and sensational Fifty Shades Of Grey has passed The Hunger Games as the bestselling book of 2012, accounting for 25% of adult fiction sales in America.