Hilary Mantel has won the Costa Book of the Year for her Man Booker-winning novel Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate).

The decision was "unanimous" according to chair of judges Jenni Murray, who said: "One book simply stood head and shoulders, more than head and shoulders, on stilts, above the rest"....

Richard Newton's The Management Book: How to Manage Your Team to Deliver
Outstanding Results (FT/Prentice Hall) has won the Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year.

The £5,000 competition, run in association with the British Library and sponsored by Henley Business School, is judged by a...

Scotland's East Neuk Festival of chamber music (3rd to 7th July) will feature an expanded literary programme this year.

The programme is curated by Catherine Lockerbie and Jenny Brown.

Andrew Greig, Sir John Lister-Kaye, Esther Woolfson and Vivian French are among the authors participating, with the events themed around...

Indian writer Jeet Thayil has won the third DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, worth $50,000, for his debut novel Narcopolis (Faber).

Chair of the prize jury K Satchidandan, praised the "extreme verbal artistry and lyrical intensity" of the winning novel, set in Bombay in the 1970s and also shortlisted for the...