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
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
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
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
There is exciting news in the book community, as Kazuo Ishiguro announces his new novel, Klara and the Sun.Read More
The winner of this year’s Nobel Literature Prize is the Japanese-born British author, Kazuo Ishiguro. Already a highly acclaimed author, Ishiguro was described by the Swedish Body as an author “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. However, to many it seems […]Read More
‘Geoffrey Hill was, in poetry, a saint and a warrior who never gave an inch in his crusade to reach poetic truth’, so said Carol Ann Duffy. And it is in this fittingly poetic vein that people have been mourning the news that Sir Geoffrey Hill – who was often described as the greatest living poet […]Read More
Syria has been in the news since the uprising in 2011. At first it was the horrors of a brutal civil war that shocked the world. Five years on, however, the crisis has reached a whole new level. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled their war-torn countries in search of peace and a safe […]Read More
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