The writers joining Hachette UK's inaugural Grow Your Story programme will include Charlotte Forfieh, Indigo Griffiths, Remi Graves, Ramya Jegatheesan, Ismail Karolia, Amina Makele, Lola Okolosie,... Read more
Richard Osman's fiction debut The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has become the bestselling novel of the year so far after just three months on sale,... Read more
Costa Coffee has teamed up with charity The Reading Agency to give out 100,000 books ahead of Christmas to those hardest hit by the pandemic.... Read more
Bonnier Books UK has appointed Greg Evaristo to its board as a non-executive director. He will also be contributing to the business' people strategy, with a particular focus... Read more
Black History Matters: The Story of Black History, From African Kingdoms to Black Lives Matter by historian Robin Walker has been crowned the winner of the 2020 ALCS... Read more
Hodder & Stoughton publicity director Karen Geary will be retiring at the end of this year, after more than two decades with the publisher. ... Read more
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2020 has been cancelled with organisers saying people have been “subjected to too many bad things this year” already.... Read more
Dorling Kindersley has donated 500 copies of Through The Animal Kingdom by Derek Harvey to Vauxhall foodbank, as a Christmas gift for children. ... Read more
Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are to host two online events with actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake, reading from "protest-inspired" stories. ... Read more
The Society of Authors has awarded grants to 48 writers, worth more than £185,000, to enable them to complete works in progress including queer auto-fiction, forgotten histories, and... Read more
Sales across almost all categories have risen in the run-up to Christmas but there has been a mixed picture internationally this year, Hachette c.e.o. David... Read more