News: books

BBC Scotland to air literature series based on Barr's Salon

BBC Scotland is launching a new literature series hosted by Damian Barr and featuring interviews with fiction, non-fiction and poetry writers. Read more

Tayari Jones wins 2019's Women's Prize for Fiction

American author Tayari Jones has won this year's £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction for her "heartbreaking" fourth novel An American Marriage (Oneworld). ... Read more

Ebury drops Roberts from Doctor Who book over trans tweets

Ebury imprint BBC Books has dropped author Gareth Roberts from its forthcoming Doctor Who short story collection, following comments he made about transgender people on... Read more

Big Issue founder launches literary magazine to create 'reading revolution'

Big Issue founder John Bird is launching a new quarterly literary magazine containing chapters, extracts and poems from a range of writers in a bid... Read more

Atwood reveals full cover artwork for The Testaments

Margaret Atwood has revealed the full cover artwork for The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments (Chatto & Windus). Read more

Dickinson leaves S&S for Hodder crime and thriller role

Simon & Schuster fiction publishing director Jo Dickinson is leaving the firm to become Hodder’s crime and thriller publisher, it has been announced.... Read more

Transworld 'devastated' by death of Sophie Christopher, aged 28

Sophie Christopher, senior publicity manager at Transworld and co-founder of The FLIP, has died at the age of 28. Read more

PRH and indies dominate Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize longlist

PRH imprints and independent publishers dominate this year's Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize longlist. Read more

Octopus buys indie Short Books in latest Hachette acquisition

Octopus Publishing Group has bought Short Books for an undisclosed sum, the latest in a series of successful indies to be snapped up by Hachette.... Read more

Echo publisher Meyer wins first Mslexia Novella Competition

Angela Meyer, publisher at Bonnier Books UK Australian imprint Echo, has won the inaugural £1,000 Mslexia Novella Competition for Joan Smokes (Contraband).... Read more

Crowhurst nominated for Times Breakthrough Award

Author Anna-Marie Crowhurst has been nominated for a Times Breakthrough Award at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Read more

SP Books to publish handwritten Mrs Dalloway manuscript

Virginia Woolf’s handwritten notebooks in which she penned Mrs Dalloway are being published as a facsimile manuscript for the first time by Parisian press SP Books.... Read more

Sissay wins PEN Pinter Prize 2019

Poet and performer playwright Lemn Sissay has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, with judges praising his ability to "forge beautiful words and a thousand... Read more

New Booker branding as Crankstart sponsorship begins

Crankstart has officially taken over as supporter of the Booker Prize, ending 18 years of sponsorship by The Man Group. Read more

Atwood, Haig and Kay join National Theatre's celebration of authors

Margaret Atwood, Matt Haig and Adam Kay will all take part in the National Theatre's upcoming Authors of Stage series celebrating authors across the world. ... Read more