News: books

All-female shortlist for Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize

This year’s Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize shortlist has been announced, with an all-female list of writers. Read more

Capital Crime launches New Voices Award

Capital Crime festival will host the inaugural New Voices Awards to champion the next generation of talent in the crime and thriller community next month. ... Read more

MacFarlane’s Underland wins Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize

Robert MacFarlane has triumphed at the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize with eighth book Underland. Read more

Sky Arts to broadcast two new documentaries on Forster and Kipling

Sky Arts will broadcast two new documentaries on E M Forster and Rudyard Kipling this autumn. Read more

Obama reveals summer reads as Morrison, Whitehead, Chiang and Mantel top list

Barack Obama has revealed his summer reading list, including titles from Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead, Ted Chiang and Hilary Mantel. Read more

Gollancz Festival returns with headliner Garth Nix

Gollancz Festival is teaming up with Foyles for its fifth anniversary event in October, featuring headliner Garth Nix. Read more

FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award longlist revealed

Sixteen titles have made the longlist for the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award with the issue of how to... Read more

Subscription service to highlight under-represented voices

Heady Mix, a book subscription service focusing on under-represented authors and protagonists, has launched. Read more

Bonnier to unleash cinema-style campaign for Wilbur Smith

Bonnier imprint Zaffre Books has revealed plans for an “unmissable” campaign promoting the new Wilbur Smith novel, Ghost Fire, using cinema-style visuals to draw in new readers.... Read more

Booker tightlipped amid speculation Lee Child will judge 2020 prize

The Booker Prize has remained tightlipped over speculation that Lee Child will join the judging panel for the 2020 prize. Read more

Penguin to publish Salinger works as e-books for first time

Penguin Books UK is publishing all four of J D Salinger’s works as e-books for the first time, as part of celebrations marking the centenary... Read more

CWA creates new Dagger for crime publishers

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has created a new category for its Dagger awards, Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year. Read more

Tributes paid to 'fearless' Toni Morrison

Pioneering publisher Margaret Busby has paid tribute to "quietly fearless" literary great Toni Morrison, who has died at the age of 88. Read more

Nick Hern Books unveils special edition of Fleabag

Nick Hern Books will publish a new edition of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s play "Fleabag"—the inspiration for the TV series of the same name—to coincide with the show’s upcoming West End run.... Read more

Sturgeon to headline Edinburgh Book Festival's Northern Lights

The First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon will headline a free talk about finding and publishing diverse voices at the Edinburgh Book Festival’s Northern Lights... Read more