Curtis Brown has teamed up with Kobo to launch a short story competition, to be judged by author Jeffrey Archer.

The finalists for the Jeffrey Archer Short Story Prize, set up by Curtis Brown Creative, the agency’s creative writing division, will be revealed at the London Book Fair on 15th April, with the winner announced on...

Book sales remained “tough” in September according to the British Retail Consortium, which reported total retail sales were up by 2.5% against September last year.

The BRC said UK retail sales values were 0.3% higher on a like-for-like basis from September 2010, when sales had risen 0.5%. On a total basis, though, sales...

Pan Macmillan has confirmed that Jeffrey Archer is to write a five novel saga spanning a century in the lives of a Bristol family. But fiction publisher Jeremy Trevathan said that the £18m advance reported in the Sunday Times yesterday (6th December) had "no basis in truth".

Trevathan declined to comment further...

Jeffrey Archer is to take his second literary stab at prison life next spring, with a new novel about a murder trial at the Old Bailey.

Prisoner of Birth tells the story of two men from very different backgrounds whose lives cross when one is accused of murder and the other becomes the chief witness at his trial. The book is...