10 book marks

Self Help

The author of the year’s largestselling self-published novel has been offered a publishing deal. Adam Croft has sold 500,000 copies of Her Last Tomorrow worldwide. It will now be released as a paperback by Thomas & Mercer in November.

perfect for peter

Labour politician Peter Hain’s Ad & Wal, the inspiring account of his parents’ fight against antiapartheid in South Africa, will be turned into a feature film.

Stirling work

Ian Rankin and Martina Cole are among the stellar names lined up for September’s Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.

cancer care

Marie Curie and WH Smith are relaunching their Big Read-cycle to help support people living with a terminal illness. They hope to achieve double last year’s total of 30,000 donated books.

Wealth Of reading

Children who grow up with lots of books in the house earn more money later in life, according to a study published in the Economic Journal.

Online lit

The Saltire Society’s first ever virtual literary festival, Scot Lit Fest, with authors taking part in Facebook and Twitter chats as well as other online content, will take place between 24-26 June.

crime pays

JK Rowling’s Career of Evil, written under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, has been shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

Over The Moon

A new Jacqueline Wilson novel, Clover Moon, aimed at readers aged 8-12, will be published in October.

party time

The Great British Bake Off: Children’s Party Cakes & Bakes, which is designed to “help parents bake the birthday cake of their child’s dreams,” will be published on 30 June.

Secret Success

Sales of Deric Henderson’s Let This Be Our Secret, from which the ITV drama The Secret was adapted, rose by 811% in the weeks since the broadcast.