News: books

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

Ebury's Rider reveals new colophon

Ebury imprint Rider has unveiled a new colophon and branding to “reflect its mission to publish books with soul”. 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... Read more

Jarrett-Macauley and Menon among Orwell Prize judges for 2021

In the 2021 Orwell Prizes, writer, academic and broadcaster Delia Jarrett-Macauley is to chair the Political Fiction judging panel while Anand Menon, a professor at King's... Read more

Former HC creative director Ben North dies

Ben North, the poet and former creative director at HarperCollins, has passed away aged 49 following treatment for brain tumours. Read more

Booker Prize reveals shortlist events ahead of big announcement

The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with appearances via “Front Row”, social media and Guardian Live alongside readings from the Old Vic on... Read more

Publisher Tom Maschler dies, aged 87

British publisher and writer Tom Maschler–who published authors including Joseph Heller and Gabriel García Márquez, and who masterminded the Booker Prize–has died aged 87. ... Read more

PRH launches inclusive English Lit campaign

Penguin Random House has joined forces with race equality think tank The Runnymede Trust in a campaign to make English Literature teaching more inclusive.... Read more

Indie press Nine Arches to mark 100th book milestone

Indie poetry publisher Nine Arches Press is releasing its 100th book in January, with another 12 collections of poetry following in 2021. Read more

Dalrymple, Brown and Townsend named $75k Cundill History Prize finalists

William Dalrymple, Vincent Brown and Camilla Townsend have been announced as the 2020 finalists for the $75,000 (£58,000) Cundill History Prize, the highest value non-fiction... Read more

Evaristo pushes industry for 'real change' in FBF keynote

Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo has told publishers that they know what they need to do: “radically alter the demography of their employees and publish a... Read more