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Alexie declines Carnegie Medal amid harassment allegations

US-based author Sherman Alexie has declined the American Library Association’s 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction following the emergence of sexual harassment accusations... Read more

Three finalists of €20k EBRD Literature Prize revealed

Three novels have been unveiled as the finalists of the inaugural EBRD Literature Prize, including a Croatian book from Quercus, a Saqi title translated from... Read more

Fundraising bid to map attacks against freedom of expression

Index on Censorship is bidding to raise £15,000 by the end of this month to map attacks against freedom of expression and demand governments do more to stop them.... Read more

Illustrator hits back after Goodkind calls cover 'laughably bad'

An illustrator has hit back at bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind after the writer suggested the cover art for his book was “laughably bad”.... Read more

Former Obama and Clinton aide writes on women and leadership for Hodder

Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a book about women and leadership from a former Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton aide, Jennifer Palmieri.... Read more

Amazon to adapt Iain Banks' space opera

Amazon will adapt the late Scottish author Iain M Banks’ acclaimed space opera Consider Phlebas 30 years after it was first published.... Read more

Two debuts make Arabic Fiction prize shortlist

Two debut novels are battling it out on the shortlist for the $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, including one soon to be published by Oneworld.... Read more

'Gifted' French publisher Jean-Manuel Bourgois dies

French publisher Jean-Manuel Bourgois has died aged 78. Read more

Slovenia named FBF country of honour for 2022

Slovenia has been revealed as the Frankfurt Book Fair’s guest of honour for 2022. Read more

Milo Yiannopoulos drops S&S lawsuit

Milo Yiannopoulos has dropped his multi-million pound legal case against Simon & Schuster US. Read more

Nourry: 'the e-book is a stupid product'

Hachette Group c.e.o. Arnaud Nourry has expressed frustration with the e-book format, calling it a "stupid product" and forecasting its sales would continue to plateau because... Read more

Irish writers unite to get Hannigan's book to number one

Irish authors have launched a social media campaign to get Emma Hannigan's latest novel, Letters To My Daughters, to number one after the mother-of-two revealed she... Read more

Australian Publishers Association to license IPG Skills Hub

The Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) have agreed a deal to license content from the IPG’s Skills Hub to publishers in... Read more