News: books

Funke and del Toro team up on 'Pan's Labyrinth' novel

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and author Cornelia Funke have collaborated on a new novel for adults inspired by del Toro’s 2006 film “Pan’s Labyrinth”,... Read more

Paul McCartney pens picture book about a magical grandfather

Paul McCartney has written a picture book, inspired by his experiences as a grandfather, which will be published by Puffin in the UK and Random... Read more

BBC adaptation of Levy novel sparks Headline editions

Headline is publishing a TV tie-in of Andrea Levy’s The Long Song, set on a sugar plantation in Jamaica in the dying days of slavery,... Read more

Cusk, Laing and Robertson vie for £10k Goldsmiths Prize

Rachel Cusk has been shortlisted for the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for the third time in four years while Olivia Laing and Man Booker-shortlisted poet Robin... Read more

Three Pulitzer winners on the Cundill History shortlist

Three Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Anne Applebaum, Ron Chernow and David I Kertzer, are vying for the Cundill History Prize, worth $75,000 (£57,000). Read more

Final, 'life-affirming' novel from Emma Hannigan

Hachette Books Ireland and the Headline Publishing Group are publishing the final novel from Irish writer Emma Hannigan, who passed away earlier this year after suffering from cancer.... Read more

Liam McIlvanney wins McIlvanney Prize

Liam McIlvanney has won the McIlvanney Prize 2018 for The Quaker (HarperCollins). Read more

Capital Crime to open school students' eyes to publishing careers

London’s newly launched crime and thriller festival Capital Crime is preparing a new social outreach initiative to provide sixth form students with an insight into how they might... Read more

Iain Dale launches LBC Book Club podcast

Former Biteback m.d. Iain Dale is hosting a new weekly books podcast with radio station LBC, where he hosts the evening show between Monday and... Read more

Lenny Henry and Sharmaine Lovegrove contribute to Headline Windrush title

Headline is publishing a new exploration of the Windrush generation, Mother Country: a book comprising over 20 real-life stories, and including contributions from MP David Lammy, comedian Lenny... Read more

Harari and Brand kick off new series of outreach Penguin Talks

Yuval Noah Harari is addressing 300 schoolchildren this month on pressing issues facing their generation at a free event hosted by Russell Brand. Read more

Mukherjee wins Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize

Abir Mukherjee has won the 2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize (£15,000) with his second novel, A Necessary Evil (Vintage). Read more

Man Booker judges: 'submissions needed more editing'

The judges who selected the Man Booker Prize 2018 shortlist yesterday have spoken out about a lack of thorough editing on some of the books submitted... Read more

Young Writers’ Award shortlist unveiled by BBC Radio One

Stories about the fragility of teenage mental health and the pain of losing a baby are among those on the shortlist of the 2018 BBC... Read more

Man Booker shortlist revealed

Anna Burns' Milkman (Faber), Esi Edugyan's Washington Black (Serpent's Tail), Daisy Johnson's Everything Under (Jonathan Cape), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape), Richard Powers'... Read more