News: books

Hudson, Stevens and Sanghera to judge Spread the Word's Life Writing Prize

Authors Kerry Hudson and Nell Stevens and Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera will judge Spread the Word’s 2020 Life Writing Prize. Read more

Dirt Hole, War on Cheese head up The Diagram Prize 2019 shortlist

Titles featuring nude biblical figures, pillaging Vikings and the fabled war on cheese are among the contenders for the 2019 edition of The Diagram Prize for... Read more

Glenconner to appear on Graham Norton as memoir racks up sales

Anne Glenconner is to appear on BBC One’s "Graham Norton Show" after her memoir Lady in Waiting (Hodder & Stoughton) racked up big sales.... Read more

Hurst reprints Jackson's Northumbrians after first month sell-out

Indie press Hurst Publishers is urgently reprinting thousands more copies of Dan Jackson’s The Northumbrians, saying it has sold out less than a month after publication.... Read more

Exeter awarded UNESCO literature status

Exeter in Devon has become the latest UK city to receive UNESCO City of Literature status. Read more

Huq joins call to scrap 'reading tax'

Konnie Huq has delivered a letter to 11 Downing Street which demanded that Sajid Javid scrap VAT for e-books. Read more

S&S publishing director MacGregor to join Headline

Simon and Schuster publishing director Iain MacGregor is joining the Headline non-fiction team as publisher, it has been announced. Read more

Vertebrate sends free Fantastic Female Adventurers book to schools

Indie publisher Vertebrate is sending out free copies of Lily Dyu’s Fantastic Female Adventurers to schools. Read more

Green wins £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

British historian Toby Green has won the £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019 with his "treasure trove" book A Fistful of Shells... Read more

Reading for Pleasure Prize Competition launches

The Reading for Pleasure Prize Competition has launched to find "compelling, disruptive and innovative" ideas that encourage people in the UK and beyond to read for pleasure... Read more

PA sets out industry demands ahead of General Election

The Publishers Association has sent a manifesto to all political parties ahead of the General Election setting out five key priorities for the industry, including... Read more

Margaret Atwood and Greta Thunberg battle it out for Waterstones Book of the Year

Margaret Atwood’s Booker-winning The Testaments (Vintage) is vying with offerings from Max Porter, Greta Thunberg and Candice Carty-Williams in a bumper shortlist for Waterstones Book of the Year.... Read more

Winterson and Shamsie in feminist fairy tale line-up from Vintage

Vintage will publish a series of classic fairy tales which “don’t need a happily ever after”, with feminist rewriting from authors Rebecca Solnit, Malorie Blackman,... Read more

Walsh wins UEA Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction

Bridget Walsh has won this year’s £3,000 UEA Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction with debut novel The Stanhope Venus. Read more

Nobel laureate Tokarczuk shortlisted for Warwick Prize

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk has been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for the second year running, for her literary crime novel Drive... Read more