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
Publisher Comma Press, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, has today announced the National Creative Writing Industry Conference. The conference is a spin on the usual annual event of the National Creative Writing Industry Day, which is usually a ticketed, non-remote event held in Manchester. Due to the pandemic, however, this year the event has […]Read More
29-year-old Dutch author, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s debut novel The Discomfort of Evening has officially won the 2020 International Booker Prize, the youngest winner so far to take home the esteemed £50,000 prize. The International Booker is an award given every year to a novel translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. In […]Read More
Whilst you may have utilised your new-found free time in the midst of quarantine by hunkering down with a stack of novels, the publishing world was catapulted into unprecedented territory. With bookshops shutting their doors for the foreseeable future, many of those employed in the industry working from home, and literary events being forced online, […]Read More
Today, 28 July, the longlist for The Booker Prize 2020 has been announced. This year's longlist is comprised of thirteen "excitingly diverse" novels.Read More
The winners of the Orwell Prize have just been announced. This is an extremely reputable award which celebrates political writing as an art form. As Orwell once wrote, “I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is […]Read More
The 2020 Desmond Elliot Prize winner is revealed, and Stormzy's publishing imprint explained. Read More
The British Book Awards, also known as the Nibbies, were hosted by the wonderful team at The Bookseller, this week. Entirely online from our new closest friend, Zoom, the Awards marked 30 years. This year, however, was extra special as Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams became the first Black author to win Book of the Year. […]Read More
There is exciting news in the book community, as Kazuo Ishiguro announces his new novel, Klara and the Sun.Read More
It has been just under ten years since American author, Suzanne Collins, finished her world-renowned book series: The Hunger Games. Now, she is back for more and teases fans with this poster, revealed this week by Scholastic Book Clubs. The unnamed prequel is set to be written sixty-four years before the start of her best-selling trilogy, […]Read More
