News: books

Dead Ink bags Missouri's dystopian debut

Dead Ink Books and Farrar Straus & Giroux (FSG) are to publish Missouri Williams’ "brilliant and depraved" debut novel The Doloriad next year, with FSG's MCD imprint publishing in the US. ... Read more

Raven Books lands Samira Sedira's English language debut

Raven Books is to publish People Like Them, the "brutal" English language debut of French Algerian novelist, actor and playwright Samira Sedira. ... Read more

Debut fiction did well in pandemic-hit 2020

Debut novelists performed solidly last year, despite widespread fears that they would lose out to more established authors due to 2020's pandemic-hit publishing schedules. ... Read more

Icon bags Ben Aitken's portrait of an unlikely friendship

Icon Books has signed Ben Aitken's account of spending lockdown as companion to an 84-year-old, described as "an intimate portrait of an unlikely friendship". ... Read more

S&S lands novel from David Higham Associates' Vialleron

Simon & Schuster UK is to publish The Yellow Kitchen by Margaux Vialleron, a novel exploring love, friendship, identity and cooking. ... Read more

Duchess of Cornwall chooses Mantel and Owens for online book club

The Duchess of Cornwall has revealed the first choices for her Instagram-based book club, featuring titles from Hilary Mantel, Delia Owens, Elif Shafak and William... Read more

Mosse joined by Moyes, Child and Evaristo for tour event

Kate Mosse will be interviewed by Jojo Moyes and joined by writers including Lee Child and Bernardine Evaristo as part of a tour to promote... Read more

Sevastien Volkov wins Impress Prize for new writers

Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Read more

Scottish bookshops keep click and collect option as Sturgeon brands books 'essential'

Bookshops in Scotland will still be able to offer click and collect services despite a toughening of coronavirus restrictions, with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon... Read more

Booker longlistee and Palme D'Or winner make Costa Short Story shortlist

A Palme D’Or-winning screenwriter and director, a former Man Booker-longlisted author and a multi-award nominated Irish writer have made the shortlist of the 2020 Costa Short... Read more

Snelgrove to lead new Bonnier Books digital-first imprint Embla

Bonnier Books UK has appointed Thomas & Mercer publisher Jane Snelgrove to lead its new digital-first imprint, Embla Books, which launches this year. ... Read more

Faber to release Rooney's third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, in September

Booksellers have expressed excitement at the news that Sally Rooney's third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, will be out from Faber this September.... Read more

Dowson joins ED Public Relations

Emma Dowson has joined agency ED Public Relations as an account director, bringing the Myriad list with her. Read more

Plath and Louverture biographies compete for Slightly Foxed Prize

Three biographies published by Penguin Random House, including ones of poet Sylvia Plath and Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, are competing on the five-strong shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize.... Read more

PRH expresses confidence in industry's prospects on entering third lockdown

In an open letter published on the company's website, PRH UK c.e.o. Tom Weldon has expressed confidence in the industry's prospects on entering a third lockdown, and revealed... Read more