News: books

First round of Moyes-funded Quick Reads books to be revealed this autumn

The next Quick Reads titles will be announced this autumn and published in February 2020, accompanied by a “high profile media campaign”, a year on... Read more

Wolf book postponed in US as Virago holds firm

Publication of Naomi Wolf’s latest book has been postponed in the US following “new questions” about its contents but UK publisher Virago is standing by... Read more

George R R Martin to make first UK visit for five years in August

George R R Martin is making a UK visit and appearing in a Waterstones event to discuss his latest book, Fire and Blood (HarperCollins).... Read more

Serpent's Tail snaps up 'devastating' memoir from Fuller

Serpent’s Tail will publish a new memoir by British-Zimbabwean author Alexandra Fuller. Read more

Rooney takes £10k Encore Award for Normal People

Sally Rooney’s Normal People (Faber) has won the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award for a second novel.... Read more

Palin and Dormer back indie bookshop campaign

Michael Palin and Natalie Dormer are among a host of stars supporting the grassroots campaign Just A Card to support independent bookshops through the ‘Just... Read more

Barker and Doyle scoop Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards

Pat Barker and Catherine Doyle are among the winners of the 2019 Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards. Read more

Eleventh Hour Films options Malik's This Green and Pleasant Land

Eleventh Hour Films has optioned TV rights to This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik (Bonnier Zaffre). Read more

Linda Fairstein 'dropped' by agent ICM

Ex-District Attorney Linda Fairstein’s US agent ICM has reportedly cut ties with her following the fall-out from the Netflix show about the wrongful prosecution of... Read more

American debut novelist wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award

American author Emily Ruskovich has won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award for her debut novel Idaho (Chatto & Windus). Read more

Porter, Sandbrook and Hadley to guest curate 70th Cheltenham Literature Festival

Max Porter, Dominic Sandbrook, Tessa Hadley, Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené are among the guest curators for the Times and the Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival’s 70th anniversary celebrations.... Read more

Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice adapted for animation

Terry Pratchett’s 28th Discworld novel, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Doubleday), is being adapted into the first animated feature film of the author's... Read more

William Collins dominates Hughes Prize shortlist

The British Society for the History of Science has unveiled the shortlist for the Hughes Prize, with William Collins netting three nominations. Read more

Libel ruling to protect non-fiction publishers from claims, says English PEN

A court judgment in a long-running libel case is a victory for free speech and offers vital protection to non-fiction publishers concerned about defamation claims,... Read more

Fulbrook wins £40,000 Wolfson History Prize

This year’s £40,000 Wolfson History Prize has been won by Mary Fulbrook for her “masterly” book Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford... Read more