Last year Francis Wheen's excellent book on the 1970s, Strange Days Indeed (Fourth Estate), noted that in looking back at the decade there was a tendency to dress it up as one big Abba song.

Although that sounds like hell to me, the point was clear: in memoirs, novels, TV shows and films the decade had morphed from what was...

Literary independent publisher Alma Books has been awarded a grant of more than £12,000 by Arts Council England, through the National Lottery, for the publication of two books.

This is the first time the publisher, founded by Italian husband and wife team Elisabetta Minervini and Alessandro Gallenzi, has received funding since...

David Walliams was among the winners of the inaugural People's Book Prize, which took place at London's Stationers Hall yesterday (21st July).

The People’s Book Prize launched last summer and was voted for exclusively by the public. Titles in three genres – fiction, non-fiction and children's literature –...

Fig Tree has signed up rights to a novel by the editor of British Vogue.

Juliet Annan, publishing director of Fig Tree, said she "jumped" on the book,  after only seeing the first third.

Annan snapped up world English territories to the untitled work by Alexandra Shulman from Eugenie Furniss at William Morris...