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Mozley, Gekoski and Myers shortlisted for SoA awards

Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Fiona Mozley has scooped a nomination for the Society of Authors awards, as the shortlists are shared for the first time in... Read more

Mslexia removes Shriver as judge over 'alienating' comments on diversity

Women’s writing magazine Mslexia has removed Lionel Shriver as a competition judge following the author’s controversial statements on diversity in publishing.... Read more

Worst remains best: second week for Walliams at number one

David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Children 3 (HarperCollins) has held the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 46,930 copies for £336,714... Read more

Perminder Mann gets Wikipedia entry to help close site's 'gender page gap'

Bonnier Publishing c.e.o. Perminder Mann is being given a Wikipedia entry as part of a drive to close Wikipedia's "gender page gap" through a series of "edit-a-thons".... Read more

Blink's 535 buys book on hangovers

Blink Publishing's non-fiction imprint 535 has acquired an exploration of what happens to our bodies when we drink too much by Canadian journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall.... Read more

Photographer at centre of Nobel Prize row charged with rape

Jean-Claude Arnault, the French photographer at the centre of the sexual assault allegations which have led to the postponement of this year’s Nobel Prize in... Read more

Cookery publisher Muna Reyal to depart Headline

Muna Reyal, cookery and lifestyle publisher at Headline Home, is leaving Headline in August to study for a Masters degree in Food Anthropology at the... Read more

How to be Parisian authors tackle 'hurtling toward 40'

Ebury Press has acquired Older but Better, a book by the authors of How to be Parisian, Caroline de Maigret and Sophie Mas.... Read more

PRH UK confirms 'Stranger Things' book programme for this autumn

Penguin Random House UK has confirmed it is embarking on a "Stranger Things" book programme with Netflix and will release two titles in autumn 2018.... Read more

D H Lawrence 'treasures' bought by University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham has acquired a "unique archive of treasures" of more than 600 items from D H Lawrence’s personal archive. Read more

Andrew Lloyd Webber theatre to stage Ted Hughes’ The Iron Woman

The Other Palace, a London theatre owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatres Group, will this autumn stage an adaptation of Ted Hughes’ classic children’s... Read more

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2018

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2018 for her "refusal to be deterred or detained by the categories of others". ... Read more

EU-funded Transbook project commits to UK post-Brexit

The director of an EU-wide children’s literature project has said Europe must continue to work with the UK after Brexit. Read more

Dialogue joins with gal-dem on Literature course which ‘rewrites canon’

Sharmaine Lovegrove, publisher of Dialogue Books, is collaborating with women of colour magazine gal-dem to create a 12-month literature course tasked with “rewriting the literary canon to... Read more

PRH's Weldon and WriteNow mentees respond to Lionel Shriver

The writers on the first year's intake of the Penguin Random House WriteNow mentorship programme have hit back at author Lionel Shriver's Spectator column criticising... Read more