Three bookshops make Britain's Best Small Shop 2020 shortlist

Indie stores Mr B's (pictured), Books At The Dragon's Garden and Griffin Books are in the running to be crowned Britain's Best Small Shop 2020... Read more

Talent agency MFI joins Curtis Brown Group

Talent agency Markham Froggatt & Irwin (MFI), which represents clients including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dominic Cooper and Naomi Watts, is joining the Curtis Brown group of companies. Read more

Brexit a 'screaming nightmare' after Covid-19, Irish presses warn

Brexit means a “complete screaming nightmare” for an industry still reeling from coronavirus and The O'Brien Press in Ireland will not be printing anything for delivery in January, its m.d. has... Read more

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Anna Burns wins €100k International Dublin Literary Award

Anna Burns has become the first author from Northern Ireland to win the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Read more
Faber signs all four FAB finalists

Faber has announced the winners, and signed up all four finalists, of this year's Faber & Andlyn (FAB) Prize for new writers and illustrators from under-represented... Read more
Canelo takes on Headley's Dome Press titles

Canelo is taking on titles currently released by The Dome Press, a publisher set up by agent and bookseller David Headley. Read more
Evaristo to chair Women's Prize 2021 panel

Bernardine Evaristo will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. Read more

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Author Interviews

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
Safiya Sinclair | 'There wasn’t much space for me as a woman to grow and thrive'

Safiya Sinclair’s début poetry collection is about to be published in the UK for the first time but it already comes garlanded with praise and... Read more