News: books

Five debut collections on T S Eliot Prize shortlist

Debut collections by poets Zaffar Kunial, Fiona Moore, Phoebe Power, RIchard Scott and Hannah Sullivan all feature on the shortlist for this year's T S Eliot... 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 (Faber & Faber), a book about the sexual harassment of... Read more

Sales of dropped Man Booker longlistees outstrip finalists

Sales of the Man Booker Prize titles dropped at the longlist stage have signfiicantly outsold its shortlist, according to Nielsen Bookscan, with Belinda Bauer's Snap... Read more

Jesse Ball wins Gordon Burn Prize

American author Jesse Ball is the winner of the £5,000 Gordon Burn Prize 2018 with his novel Census (Granta Books). ... Read more

Shamsie: Women’s Prize forced others to shift on gender

The creation of the Women’s Prize for Fiction made it “embarrassing” for other prizes to have all-male shortlists, Golden Booker judge Kamila Shamsie has said, at ... Read more

Trade rallies to support Newham Bookshop

Newham Bookshop is being forced from its east London premises after 40 years in business. Read more

Century acquires Will Smith's memoir

Century has acquired the memoir of American actor and rapper Will Smith. Read more

'Hard-hitting' police procedural wins Daily Mail/PRH First Novel Competition

Georgia Fancett from Bath has picked up a £20,000 publishing contract with Century for her "hard-hitting" police procedural The Fifth Girl.... Read more

Pullman, Shamsie and Westover make 2018's BAMB Readers Awards shortlists

Philip Pullman, Kamila Shamsie, Carol Ann Duffy, and Tara Westover are some of the authors whose books have been shortlisted by bookshops for 2018's Books Are My... Read more

The further adventures of... Jonas Jonasson

Swede Jonas Jonasson reflects on why his centenarian adventures have been such prolific bestsellers across the globe. Read more

Persaud wins £15k BBC Short Story Award

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for her tale about a man reunited with his absent father through... Read more

Blakemore's 'captivating read on the teenage brain' scoops Science Book Prize

Inventing Ourselves (Doubleday) has won the £25,000 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, making its author Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore the fourth consecutive woman to scoop the... Read more

History, popular science and memoir compete for £30k Baillie Gifford

Books spanning history, popular science and memoir are in contention for the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, with themes of shortlisted books ranging from... Read more

Hachette staff take on the gender pay gap with live performance

Hachette's Gender Balance Network is putting on a performance at the publisher's offices today to address the issue of the gender pay gap in an... Read more

Ebury deputy m.d. Jake Lingwood departs after two decades

After more than 20 years with Ebury, Jake Lingwood, the division's deputy managing director and publisher, is stepping down and leaving the company. Read more