Comma Press, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, has announced a two-day online publishing conference, to be held on 24 April and 25 April. This event is aimed at increasing accessibility to the industry, and to provide vital information and support to aspiring publishers. The conference will include two free events, which will be livestreamed […]Read More
Nicola Sturgeon’s upcoming book, Women Hold Up Half The Sky is due to be published in May by independent Scottish publisher, Sandstone Press. The book is a collection of speeches made by the Scottish First Minister addressing “such diverse matters as education, human rights, equality, infrastructure, food banks and the European Union”, the publishers state. […]Read More
The Mermaid of Black Conch has taken this year’s £30,000 Costa Book of The Year Award. Judges deemed it a classic in the making. “I really wanted this book to be seen and read” Monique Roffey, 55, has won the award for her sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch. The story of a fisherman […]Read More
The start of a new year can mean many different things, with some people viewing it as a chance for a new start. Personally I love the start of a new year because it brings with it a year of new books to get excited for. With so many books coming out this year, from […]Read More
Sally Rooney, author of Normal People, will be releasing her third novel in September. Rooney’s UK publisher Faber announced on Tuesday that the novel will be titled Beautiful World, Where Are You. It will follow the story of friends Alice and Eileen, as they navigate their twenties and an uncertain political and economic climate. Faber […]Read More
As of 1st January 2021, the U.S. copyright has expired on a myriad of novels, films, and songs that were produced in 1925, allowing anyone to use them free of charge and setting the stage for potential new adaptations and reworkings. Among the works that have now officially entered the public domain are classic titles such […]Read More
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John Le Carré, has died aged 89. Le Carré was a highly respected author, and one of the best post-war espionage writers, but he was more than just a novelist, he was effectively a character in his own novels. Le Carré spent his early life […]Read More
On the 2nd November, the website Bookshop was launched in the UK, with the intention of financially supporting local, independent bookshops, particularly during these arduous times. Since lockdown was implemented in March, Amazon’s profits have almost doubled to a sickening quarterly profit of $5.2 billion. It seems many of its customers find the ease of […]Read More
Irish author Anna Burns has won the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, for her fierce novel Milkman. This award stands as one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes, presenting Burns with a colossal £100,000. In fact, Burns is the first writer from Northern Ireland and the fourth woman to win the prize since it […]Read More
American poet Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “unmistakable poet voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” This makes Glück the 16th woman to win the prize, and the first American woman to win since Toni Morrison in 1993. The prestigious award is renowned for being awarded to […]Read More
Welsh author, Rhiannon Lewis, best known for her debut novel My Beautiful Imperial has become the first UK writer to win the prestigious William Faulkner Literary Prize for her new short story. The win was announced on 25th September from the William Faulkner Library, located at the Union County Heritage Museum in Mississippi. Typically, the […]Read More
Last week was a ‘bumper week’ for UK booksellers as sales hit £33.6 million in seven days. This is an 11% increase on the previous week, and the best first week of September on record. When lockdown relegated us to our homes in March, as a nation we picked up hobbies to pass the time, […]Read More
When the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 shortlist was first announced, it was evident the judges had a difficult job on their hands, under pressure to pick a winner from some of the most talented writers we have all loved during lockdown. On Wednesday, it was officially announced, via a digital awards ceremony in London, […]Read More
Last week, an incredible shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award was announced. Anna Burns, Olga Tokarczuk and Tayari Jones, previous winners of the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Women’s Prize, are among eight of the women to be nominated. With three novels in translation, the award includes writers from Canada, France, […]Read More
The Bronte Parsonage Museum has received a donation of £20,000 from the family of T.S. Eliot following the financial toll taken by the coronavirus on the museum’s profits. The historic building where the famed Bronte sisters were raised is at risk of permanent closure as lockdown caused an expected loss of more than £500,000. Despite […]Read More
