Joanna, den smukke datter af den succesrige forlagsejer, Matthew Drayton, og hans aristokratiske hustru Christina, er kommet på besøg med sin nye forlovede, John Prentice, en anerkendt sort læge. Christina accepterer sin datters valg om at gifte sig med John, men Matthew er chokeret ved tanken om denne raceblanding; og lægens forældre er tilsvarende skuffede. Begge familier bliver nødt til at sætte sig ned, ansigt til ansigt, og undersøge alvoren af deres intolerance.
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Kay kan ikke få sin bog færdig og derfor er både hendes forlægger og fans er utålmodige. Hendes hovedperson Harold er en desillusioneret embedsmand, der underligt nok viser sig også at være en virkelig person, der er stærkt plaget af en mytisk fortæller stemme inde i sit hoved. Da Kay beslutter at gøre det af med sin hovedperson, forsøger Harold samtidig at opspore kilden til den mærkelige stemme.
Da den populære horror-forfatter Sutter Cane forsvinder, bliver forsikringsagenten John Trent sendt af sted for at se nærmere på omstændighederne. Hans undersøgelser bringer ham til den lille by Hobbs End, hvor Canes rædselsvisioner tilsyneladende udspiller sig i virkeligheden.
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.
Året er 1971. Washington Post-udgiveren Katharine Graham og redaktøren Ben Bradlee konkurrerer med New York Times om at afsløre en massiv tildækning af regeringshemmeligheder, der har strakt sig over tre årtier og fire præsidenter. Graham og Bradlee risikerer både deres karriere og deres frihed under forsøget på at få sandheden frem i lyset. Samtidig er de nødt til at overvinde deres personlige forskelle og uenigheder.
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Dan Stevens (Beast i Beauty and the Beast-remaket) spiller den berømte forfatter Charles Dickens. Året er 1843. Dickens har tre fiaskoer bag sig og er nu desperat efter at score et hit. Han beslutter sig derfor for at skrive en julehistorie. Det er dog lettere sagt end gjort. Han har en stram deadline, og da hans forældre flytter ind hos ham, får han skriveblokering. Men måske han kan komme ud af den situation ved hjælp af sine samtaler med den fiktive Ebenezer Scrooge?
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Filmen 'Mysteriet om Henri Pick' handler om en ung redaktør i et specialbibliotek i Bretagne, som finder et aldeles fremragende og mageløst manuskript.
Teksten er underskrevet af den afdøde lokale pizzabager Henri Pick, der ifølge hans enke aldrig forfattede noget, som var mere sofistikeret end en indkøbsseddel.
Den anerkendte litteraturkritiker Jean-Michel Rouche aner, at noget ikke stemmer og bestemmer sig for at undersøge sagen nærmere sammen med Henri Picks datter. For hvem var Henri Pick egentlig?
A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.
Portland book editor Natalie Holland has chosen the wrong guy – another underachiever – once again. With her life going nowhere fast, she accepts a job offer from publisher and friend Avery Goldstein and moves to Los Angeles. A woman of depth and principle, Portland chic Natalie is a fish out of water in LA. Things only get worse when she learns she’s been hired to edit the latest romance novel from bestselling author Beverly Wilcox, a powerful, glamorous and intimidating figure straight out of "The Devil Wears Prada".
Holly Shaw wants to prove her writing talent in a reading of her romance novel. But she achieves the exact opposite with the cynical reporter Aaron Kingsley. On the way to her car, Holly is attacked. Her papers, her books, her coat and her shoes are found by the police on the riverbank.
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.