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Andrea Levy wins Walter Scott Prize for The Long Song (Scotland)
The second Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction has been awarded to Andrea Levy for her slavery novel The Long Song. The £25,000 prize was awarded at one of Scotland's top literary events, the...
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Book Grocer: 22-28 June 2011 (UK)
Book Grocer: 22-28 June 2011 - The week ahead in literary London from the Londonist blog
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The Publishers Association Bulletin - 20 June 2011 (UK)
The Publishers Association Bulletin - 20 June 2011 - is now available online
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The British Library and Google to make 250,000 books available to all
The British Library and Google have announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in...
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2011 Independent Booksellers Week (UK)
Independent Booksellers Week is part of the IndieBound campaign for independent bookshops, which promotes independent bookshops, great books, strong reading communities, and the idea of shopping...
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Galaxy National Book Awards 2011 shortlist categories
The shortlist categories for the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011 have been announced
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Julian Barnes wins Man Booker Prize 2011
Julian Barnes has been named the winner of this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Sense of an Ending, published by Jonathan Cape. London-based Barnes has been the bookies' favourite...
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The Fourth Brook Green Book Festival 2011 (UK)
The Fourth Brook Green Book Festival 2011 sponsored by Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Brook Green. The aim of the Festival is to bring together West London writers and local people - 17-21 October, 2011
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Novelist Catherine Fisher named young people's laureate (Wales)
A writer from Newport is to be named Wales' first Young People's Laureate later. Catherine Fisher, a former primary school teacher and archaeologist, is an award-winning author of fantasy novels for...
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Writeidea Reading Festival 2011 (UK)
This is the third year of Writeidea - East London's free reading festival - and it is now established as a highlight in the cultural calendar in the capital. In contrast to many other literary...
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Bedford Square Books launches with six titles
Bedford Square Books, the new e-book and Print on Demand venture coming from the Ed Victor Literary Agency, has gone live with all six launch titles now available to the public. In addition, Ed Victor...
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TS Eliot prize 2011 shortlist (UK)
The shortlist for the TS Eliot prize 2011 has been announced:* Black Cat Bone by John Burnside * The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy* Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn * Night by David Harsent * Armour by John...
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World Book Night titles unveiled (UK)
Pride and Prejudice and The Alchemist are among the 25 titles that will be given away on World Book Night in 2012. One million books will be distributed at venues including hostels, pubs and hospitals...
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Collins collars Radio 4 "New Elizabethans" tie-in
Collins has acquired a tie-in to the upcoming BBC Radio 4 flagship series "The New Elizabethans", written and narrated by James Naughtie, which will air every weekday between June and September....
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Two Madeley novels for S&S
Simon & Schuster has acquired two novels by broadcaster and Richard & Judy Book Club founder Richard Madeley. Publishing director Suzanne Baboneau bought world English-language rights from...
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Man Booker Prize judges take part in Woodland Trust's Jubilee Woods Project
The judges of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction travelled to Hainault Forest, an ancient hunting forest on the edge of London, to plant saplings. This is the fourth year that the Man Booker Prize...
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Ian Fleming's estate signs new James Bond book deal
Ian Fleming's back catalogue of James Bond stories is to be relaunched after his estate signed a 10-year deal with Random House to publish the books in print and e-book format. Vintage, a division of...
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James Tait Black shortlist announced
Finalists for the University of Edinburgh's £10,000 James Tait Black Prizes have been named. Winners will be announced August 25 during the Edinburgh International Book Festival. This year's...
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Book Review: The Secret History Of Our Streets - London
It's pretty much impossible to get a thorough handle on the vast social history of London. Unless you're Roy Porter. And you're not, because he's sadly no longer with us. It's much easier, however, to...
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The Wales Book of the Year Award 2012 short list
The short list for The Wales Book of the Year Award 2012 has been announced
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Hilary Mantel introduces Bring up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel talks about her new book Bring up the Bodies, the sequel to the Man Booker prize-winning Wolf Hall. The story of Thomas Cromwell continues. In the final days of Anne Boleyn, no one is...
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Wolfson History Prize (2011) winners
The winners of the Wolfson History Prizes in 2011, awarded at a reception and dinner on 8 May 2012, were:Mrs Susie Harries for Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus)Professor Alexandra...
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2012 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award longlist
2012 marks the eighth year of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The award, run in partnership with Asda and in association with the Daily Mirror, was created to celebrate the...
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Karen Russell's 'Swamplandia!' wins New York Public Library's Young Lions award
Karen Russell's 'Swamplandia!' wins New York Public Library's Young Lions award. The prize, which has been awarded annually since 2001 to a writer under 35, comes with a $10,000 pot. Russell is 30...
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Aharon Appelfeld scoops Independent foreign fiction prize
Inspired by his experiences during the Holocaust, a novel by the 80-year-old Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent foreign fiction prize. Blooms of Darkness is loosely based on his...
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