Norton, Ryan and McAnulty win at An Post Irish Book Awards

Graham Norton, Dara McAnulty and Donal Ryan were among the winning authors at the virtual An Post Irish Book Awards. Read more

Bookstat: One More for luck for Morgan

Sarah Morgan’s One More for Christmas (HQ)—assuredly not a reference to the number of households she is inviting over this year—zipped to first place in the Bookstat e-book top 10 for the week ending... Read more

Barnes, Clarke and host of debuts make Costa shortlists

Susanna Clarke, Julian Barnes and Meg Rosoff are joined by 10 debut authors in the shortlists for this year's Costa Book Awards... Read more

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Herbert steps down at Forward Arts Foundation

Forward Arts Foundation executive director Susannah Herbert has announced she is stepping down after eight years in the role. Read more
Brown's 'joyous' Beatles biography wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Craig Brown has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his “joyous” One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate), which judges said “reinvented... Read more
PA to aggregate publisher data as firms audit lists for diversity

The Publishers Association is to aggregate publisher statistics on the diversity make-up of their books, after a number of big publishers confirmed that they were... Read more
Picador reprints 150,000 copies of Booker winner Shuggie Bain

Picador has confirmed it has reprinted more than 150,000 copies of Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning novel Shuggie Bain. Read more

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Francis Spufford | 'I love that endlessly varied pressure from other people’s lives in cities'

For the past 12 years, Francis Spufford has walked to work at Goldsmiths College, part of the University of London, where he teaches creative writing... Read more
Georgina Lawton | 'Ideas from our parents form the backbone to our identities'

"Ideas from our parents form the backbone to our identities... they condition us in more powerful ways than lessons from any book or religion ever... Read more
Chris Mould | 'I always drew, but nobody told me where that could go'

The very first text Chris Mould illustrated as a student was George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm. The young Mould was given Orwell’s text at... Read more
Salena Godden | 'I was in a very dark place and looking for the light'

"It comes from a place of grieving. I was mourning, I was in... Read more