Paphides wins Christopher Bland Prize with Broken Greek

Pete Paphides has won the £10,000 RSL Christopher Bland Prize for his “extraordinary, moving and funny” coming-of-age memoir Broken Greek (Quercus). Read more

Pushkin orders five-figure reprint of Diop's International Booker winner

Pushkin Press has ordered a five-figure reprint of David Diop's novel At Night All Blood is Black, translated by Anna Moschovakis, after it won the International Booker Prize... Read more

Backlist sales surge in lockdown as shop closures hinder discoverability of debuts

Data from Nielsen BookScan has revealed how readers increasingly reached for backlist titles over lockdown. Read more

PRH and Waterstones resolve dispute and return to 'business as usual'

Penguin Random House and Waterstones say they have returned to “business as usual” following a dispute that saw the bookseller limit the visibility of PRH... Read more
Fleet takes two more from Stubborn Archivist author Fowler

Fleet has signed two new titles from Yara Rodrigues Fowler author of Stubborn Archivist, and Sunday Times Young Writer Award shortlistee.... Read more
Griffiths made bookseller champion by CWA

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has appointed author Elly Griffiths to the role of booksellers champion, as National Crime Reading Month begins across the UK.... Read more
Hachette Ireland acquires Steve Garrigan memoir

Hachette Ireland has acquired a memoir by Steve Garrigan, lead singer of the Irish rock band Kodaline. Read more
Cambridge historian Caputo wins £25k Ideas Prize

The Ideas Prize for non-fiction has been been awarded to historian Sara Caputo for her proposal Tracks on the Ocean. ... Read more
Hachette Pride announces month-long digital festival

Hachette Pride, the publisher's LGBTQIA+ employee network, is partnering with imprints across the company to host a month-long digital celebration of gay, bisexual and trans... Read more

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Opinion

Resisting the old normal

Penny Batchelor Author

Lockdown for many authors was a gruelling challenging time with loss of income, lack of literary inspiration and dealing with illness. For disabled and chronically... Read more
A new equilibrium

Benedicte Page Deputy Editor at The Bookseller
Publishers must help bookshops bounce back

Joseph Evans Head of tech at Enders Analysis
Red flags for authors

Anna Vaught Author
But what if I want to write about mangoes?

Pragya Agarwal Author

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Author Interviews

Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter: Turning the focus on the next generation

Though Black Girls Book Club (BGBC) founders Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter inked the deal for their upcoming first book last year, it was... Read more
Mya-Rose Craig | 'If you care and want to change the world, you can go out and do it'

Mya-Rose Craig is a Bristol-based ornithologist who has been blogging about birds as Birdgirl since she was 11. She first gained fame after being featured... Read more
Malorie Blackman | 'I can only hope that my books encourage further debate and discussion'

This August, former Waterstones children's laureate Malorie Blackman will release the conclusion to her Noughts & Crosses series, Endgame (Penguin Random House Children’s UK). It... Read more
Neil Price | 'The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible'

The very first thing Neil Price wrote when he began his history of the Vikings, The Children of Ash and Elm (Penguin), was not an... Read more