Christmas comes early for bookshops as new restrictions prompt surge in trade

Booksellers are remaining upbeat despite a myriad of new coronavirus restrictions being imposed across the British Isles, with some already reporting stellar Christmas-style sales. Read more

The Bookseller announces the Diagram Prize 2020 shortlist

Titles featuring the metaphorical power of micturating pooches and the ass’ enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages are among the shortlistees for the 42nd Diagram Prize... Read more

Jones, Trollope and Reichs in Richard & Judy Christmas line-up

Tayari Jones, Joanna Trollope and Kathy Reichs are among the six authors selected for Richard & Judy's Christmas Book Club, which this year is dominated by thrillers... Read more

Women Poets' Prize reveals 2020 shortlist

Nine writers have made the shortlist for the biennial Women Poets' Prize, hailed for their “ambitious, experimental and ground-breaking” work. Read more
S&S bags Jordan's latest thriller

Simon & Schuster UK has triumphed in a three-way auction for Do No Harm, a "compulsive" thriller from Jack Jordan. ... Read more
White Rabbit acquires joint memoir from Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi

Lee Brackstone, publisher at White Rabbit, has acquired world all-language rights for Medical Grade Music directly from authors Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi.... Read more
Sphere scoops another true crime title from David Wilson

Sphere will publish A Plot to Kill: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal and Murder in a Quiet English Town, from criminologist David Wilson.... Read more
Black & White to publish Burns poetry selection

Black & White Publishing has acquired Burns for Every Day of the Year from Robert Burns expert Dr Pauline Mackay. ... Read more
Dunlop's Army Girls marches to Headline

Headline Publishing Group has acquired Tessa Dunlop's Army Girls - The Secrets and Stories of Military Service from the Final Few Women who Fought in World... Read more

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Tana French | 'I don't like being in my comfort zone. I think it’s dangerous'

"I've discovered that as a writer I don't like being in my comfort zone. I think it’s dangerous.” Tana French first made her name with... Read more
Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett | 'We’re trying to break the binary'

Ever wished that the giant-killers in fairytales could be girls? Or that the princes were left back at the palace simpering, while their sisters rode... Read more
Emily Gravett | 'There’s a place in picture books for all kinds of things'

Author-illustrator Emily Gravett caps off a busy 12 months with her new picture book Too Much Stuff, a tale about how less can often be... Read more
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | 'Stories have such power you cannot imagine'

The First Woman, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's powerful feminist novel about a headstrong young woman’s coming-of-age in 1970s Uganda, has had a long and fraught path... Read more