News: books

Joanne Harris calls on publishers to take online pirates to court

Joanne Harris has called on publishers to haul online pirates through the courts and set a legal precedent after authors rallied against website Ebooks Bike... Read more

Bookouture promotes Taussig to head new US-focused team

Bookouture has promoted Kathryn Taussig to publishing director with responsibility for recruiting and leading a new US-focused team. Read more

NLT and Uber to launch mobile library scheme in London and Manchester

To help parents make more time for family bedtime stories, the National Literacy Trust has partnered with transport network Uber to launch a “mobile library” scheme... Read more

S&S UK lands Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness' memoir

The first memoir of Jonathan Van Ness, of Netflix makeover show "Queer Eye", will be published by Simon & Schuster UK in September.... Read more

Burns and Rooney make Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

The 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been revealed, featuring Man Booker winner Anna Burns, Costa Novel Award winner Sally Rooney and seven debut novelists. ... Read more

Women dominate Authors’ Club longlist

Women dominate this year’s Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, with books by eight women making up the 11-title longlist as chair of the judging panel Lucy Popescu praises... Read more

Winter Dark named Audible Thriller of the Year

Audible has revealed the audio-exclusive debut Winter Dark by Alex Callister is this year’s Thriller of the Year. Read more

Bloomsbury pre-empts Binder's family-inspired Second World War novel

Bloomsbury UK and US have both pre-empted on the first novel by award-winning short fiction writer L Annette Binder, inspired by her own family’s experience under... Read more

Thubron wins top prize at Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Colin Thubron was honoured with the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing at this year’s Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards (ESTWAs) ceremony. ... Read more

Robert Goddard wins CWA Diamond Dagger

The Crime Writers’ Association has awarded Robert Goddard the 2019 CWA Diamond Dagger. Read more

S&S UK to publish 'The Mueller Report'

Simon & Schuster UK, US-based Scribner and the Washington Post will publish 'The Mueller Report' instantly as an e-book and paperback edition.... Read more

Ten-strong shortlist revealed for the YA Book Prize 2019

Macmillan Children’s Books, Scholastic and Walker Books have two titles apiece on the shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2019, which includes books by the... Read more

Cape wins 'heated' five-way auction for biologist Raihani’s debut

Jonathan Cape has triumphed in a five-way auction for award-winning evolutionary biologist Nichola Raihani’s debut Together: How Cooperation Shaped Humankind.... Read more

Avon joins forces with Big Issue to launch crime writing competition

HarperCollins imprint Avon is partnering with the Big Issue magazine to find a new crime writer in a competition launching in March.... Read more

Pete Ayrton to head up new HopeRoad imprint

HopeRoad has launched a new imprint, Small Axes, celebrating post-colonial classics to focus on “republishing post-colonial classics”, with Serpent's Tail founder Pete Ayrton to head... Read more