Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award are: A God in Ruins (Kate...

Tuesday, 17 November 2015
In the UK, finance analysts have warned Pearson investors are ‘increasingly concerned about the risk of an additional profit warning’ after the publisher’s share price fell 5.6% to 773.00p (A$16.56) on 12...

Monday, 16 November 2015
Six titles have been shortlisted for the UK’s £10,000 (A$21,394) Guardian First Book Award, including a poetry collection, a nonfiction title, a short story collection and three novels. Andrew McMillan’s Physical...

Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, Faber will close its Faber Factory Plus sales service for small independent publishers, reports the Bookseller. Clients of the service, which launched in 2012, including  Lonely Planet...

Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) has found more than half of the surveyed companies believe their business is growing, reports the Bookseller. The finding was in its...

Thursday, 12 November 2015
In the UK, Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone (Canongate) has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of six titles, Barry’s fictionalised portrait of The Beatles’ John Lennon ‘at a...

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) will introduce a dedicated science-fiction and fantasy line from February 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. John Joseph Adams, who edited HMH’s first Best American...

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
In Canada, André Alexis has won the C$100,000 (A$106,800) Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs (Serpent’s Tail). The judges described Alexis’ novel as ‘an insightful and philosophical meditation...

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
In the US, Scholastic and youth literature advocacy organisation We Need Diverse Books have released a special edition Scholastic Reading Club flyer for grades four-to-eight, featuring 75 books with ‘diverse...

Monday, 9 November 2015
Six editors and all 31 board members of Elsevier’s linguistics journal Lingua have resigned in protest of the company’s high pricing and refusal to offer open-access, reports Inside Higher Ed....