Ebury pre-empts WW2 diary of Polish teenager

The diary of a Polish teenager who was killed by Nazi soldiers weeks after her 18th birthday has been pre-empted by Ebury after lying unread in a drawer for 70 years. Read more

Sullivan scoops £25k T S Eliot Prize

Hannah Sullivan has won the £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for her "astonishing" debut collection Three Poems... Read more

Costa Book Awards 2018 winners named

The judges of the Costa Book Awards 2018 have revealed their winners, deemed "the most enjoyable books" across five different categories... Read more

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Bodley Head scoops Kendi's antiracism guide

Bodley Head will publish a “game-changing” exploration of tackling racism, How To Be an Antiracist, by academic and writer Ibram X Kendi in August 2019.... Read more
Atkinson departs Bloomsbury after 12 years

Bloomsbury’s senior commissioning editor Richard Atkinson, responsible for the publishing of books such as Polpo and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage series, has left the company... Read more
HarperFiction scoops two books from McLaughlin

HarperFiction have inked another two-book deal with author Cressida McLaughlin. Read more
Callaghan's Mosul Zoo goes to Forge for six figures at auction

The debut book from the Sunday Times' Middle East correspondent Louise Callaghan has sold to Macmillan in the US for six figures after a four-publisher auction, with... Read more

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Author Interviews

Tessa Hadley | 'The domestic parochial is what novels do best'

The seventh novel by Tessa Hadley could see the author, adored by peers but often overlooked by prizes, finally reach a deserved wider readership. Read more
Tim Waterstone | 'It was very cleansing to write, but also to face the ugly stuff'

Philip Jones talks to Tim Waterstone about the founding of his eponymous high street chain and how his early years formed his view of bookselling.... Read more
Sam Copeland | 'Children’s books give you the freedom to be funny'

RCW agent Sam Copeland was a trade rarity: a publishing staffer with no desire to turn author. Now, he says, he can’t stop writing...... Read more
Lucy Foley | 'I wanted to read a modern murder mystery. So that’s what I wrote'

With three historical novels to her name, former editor Lucy Foley has turned her hand to a Highlands-set murder mystery. Read more