News: books

Hachette UK reveals inaugural Grow Your Story intake

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

Nielsen reveals Osman stats as Thursday Murder Club hits top place

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 and Reading Agency to give out 100,000 books for Christmas

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

Welbeck acquires mental health publisher Trigger

Welbeck Publishing Group has become the majority owner of the mental health and wellbeing publisher, Trigger Publishing. Read more

Greg Evaristo joins Bonnier Books UK board

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 scoops 2020 ALCS Educational Writers' Award

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

Festival for Working Class Writers seeks sponsors after Arts Council knock back

The Festival for Working Class Writers is seeking a sponsor to join Hachette UK as its co-sponsor, for its inaugural festival in 2021.... Read more

Real Life, A Ghost in the Throat and The Wolf's Secret named Foyles Books of the Year

Books from Brandon Taylor, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Myriam Dahman with Nicolas Digard have been named Foyles Books of the Year.... Read more

Hodder's Geary to retire after 20 years

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

Bad Sex award cancelled to spare people from more bad things

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

DK donates 500 books to Vauxhall foodbank

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

Peake and Eccleston to support Housmans and Comma's protest readings

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

SoA awards £185k in grants for works in progress

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

Obama's A Promised Land scores a third week at the top

Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Viking) has held the UK Official Top 50 number one for a third week running. Read more

Shelley hails 'relatively strong' Christmas sales in author letter

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