Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist revealed

Books from writers including Sally Rooney, Dolly Alderton and Henry Eliot have made the shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2018. Read more

PRH announces UK event with Michelle Obama

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama will appear in conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to promote her memoir at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in December. Read more

'Milkman' by Anna Burns wins Man Booker Prize

Anna Burns has become the first Northern Irish writer to win the Man Booker Prize with her novel Milkman, a book about the sexual harassment of a young woman. Read more

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Liu Cixin wins 2018 Arthur C Clarke lifetime award

Liu Cixin, author of the Three-Body trilogy, has won the 2018 Arthur C Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society from the Clarke Foundation.... Read more
'Genre-bending' biography of Joseph Conrad wins 2018's Cundill History Prize

Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff has won 2018's US$75,000 Cundill History Prize for her "genre-bending" and "immaculately researched" account of the life of Polish-born British writer... Read more
Strong start for Becoming as PRH UK confirms 350k copies shipped and two reprints

Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming (Viking) has shipped 350,000 copies across the UK and Commonwealth and been reprinted twice after just two days on sale.... Read more
Cover and title of sixth installment in Larsson's Millennium series revealed

Quercus has announced that the next title in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium series by David Lagercrantz will be The Girl Who Lived Twice.... Read more

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Kamal Ahmed | 'I hope you come to the end of my book and feel a sense of hope'

Born in Ealing, west London, half a century ago to an English mother and a Sudanese father, Kamal Ahmed explores what it means to be... Read more
Horatio Clare | 'This diary has been a lifeline'

An odyssey through the landscapes of winter became a meditation on mental health and the human condition for writer Horatio Clare. Read more
Peter James | 'Good, intelligent thrillers are not bound by genre convention'

Peter James is best known for his police procedurals featuring Roy Grace, but his latest standalone thriller tackles one of the biggest questions. Read more
Kiran Millwood Hargrave | 'I’m always hoping the next book is the best book'

The third novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave stays true to the territory that is her "first and greatest love"—and it’s her best to date, too.... Read more