The 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced

Debuts by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Jessie Greengrass and Elif Batuman have been shortlisted for 2018’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. Read more

'Godfather of Pop Art' Blake designs BAMB tote

Sir Peter Blake has designed the collectors' edition tote for this year's Books Are My Bag campaign, celebrating bookshops in the UK and Ireland... Read more

The stories behind the Books of the Year

Authors and editors talk about how the titles shortlisted in The British Book Awards' Books of the Year categories came into being... Read more

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'Godfather of Pop Art' Blake designs BAMB tote

Sir Peter Blake, often referred to as the "Godfather of British Pop Art", has designed the collectors' edition tote for this year's Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign,... Read more
Morrissey to star in new Louise Doughty adaptation

Production company Eleventh Hour is teaming up with David Morrissey to adapt Louise Doughty's Whatever You Love (Faber) for television.... Read more
Lovegrove launches magazine for Caribbean writing

Sharmaine Lovegrove has launched an online magazine dedicated to Caribbean literature. Read more
Authors appeal for Quick Reads to continue

The book trade has reacted with shock and dismay to the “tragedy” that Quick Reads has been scrapped for next year after organisers struggled to... Read more

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Author Interviews

Lauren St John | "People don’t choose their destinies"

The author whose love of animals has spawned a series of bestsellers opens a new four-part sleuth series, her first books for Macmillan Children’s. Read more
Louise O’Neill | 'I wanted to honour the original but be much more empowering and fierce'

The Little Mermaid gets a feminist revamp in this thoroughly modern fairytale for the Trump era. Read more
Kate Mosse | 'I haven’t felt about a book the way I felt about Labyrinth—until now'

The novelist and Women’s Prize co-founder talks about her new sweeping epic, her kind of feminism and why it’s time publishers stood for equal representation.... Read more
Christie Watson | 'I just wanted it to be real'

Although there are now plenty of medical memoirs by doctors, this nurse’s tale—the non-fiction début of an award-winning fiction writer—sets a new standard for the genre.... Read more