Monday, 2 December 2013
The winners of the 2013 Irish Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in Dublin on 26 November. Roddy Doyle won the Novel of the Year award for The Guts...

Monday, 2 December 2013
George Orwell’s novel Burmese Days (various imprints) has won the highest literary award in Burma, reports Publishing Perspectives. A Burmese translation of Orwell’s 1934 novel by Maung Myint Kywe has...

Friday, 29 November 2013
Irish author Donal Ryan has won this year’s Guardian First Book Award for The Spinning Heart (Doubleday). Ryan’s novel, which tells the story of Irish workers struggling to make ends...

Friday, 29 November 2013
In the US, HarperCollins is offering short-term ebook rental to schools via the Curriculet digital reading platform, reports Publishers Weekly. Schools subcribing to the pilot program will have access to the Curriculet digital reading app, which allows teachers...

Thursday, 28 November 2013
In the UK, the shortlisted titles for the 2013 Costa Book Awards have been announced. You can view the titles shortlisted in each category—first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children’s—on...

Thursday, 28 November 2013
According to a UK survey, 62% of 16- to 24-year-olds prefer print books over ebooks, reports the Guardian. The survey of 1420 young adults by London marketing research agency Voxburner...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Sean Carroll’s book about the search for the Higgs boson, The Particle at the End of the Universe (Oneworld), has won the £25,000 (A$43,953) Royal Society Winton Prize for Science...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
In the US, CEO of the American Booksellers Association (ABA) Oren Teicher and the ABA board have been chosen as trade magazine Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year ‘for their...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
In Canada, Colin McAdam has won this year’s Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for A Beautiful Truth (Granta). McAdam’s novel was selected for the C$25,000 (A$25,966) prize from a shortlist...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
The Reading Agency has announced the books chosen for next year’s World Book Night in the UK and Ireland. Twenty titles have been selected for World Book Night 2014, with...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
In the US, HarperCollins has partnered with American Airlines and travel bookshop Hudson Booksellers for a new promotion during December, reports Publishers Weekly. During the peak travel month of December,...

Monday, 25 November 2013
Plans have been unveiled for a new international book fair to be held in Toronto, Canada, in November 2014, reports Publishers Weekly. Inspire! The Toronto International Book Fair will be...

Monday, 25 November 2013
In the UK, the winners of the Bookseller’s FutureBook Innovation Awards were announced at the 2013 FutureBook Conference in London this month. Sourcebooks founder and publisher Dominique Raccah was named...

Friday, 22 November 2013
The shortlist for the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Book of Destruction (Anand, translated by Chetana Sachidanandan, Penguin); Goat Days...

Friday, 22 November 2013
In the US, the winners of the 2013 National Book Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: in fiction, The Good Lord Bird (James McBride, Riverhead Books);...

Thursday, 21 November 2013
In the US, news organisation Bloomberg has laid off numerous arts writers in a wider editorial restructure, including books editor Laurie Muchnick, reports Publishers Weekly. According to the Wall Street...

Thursday, 21 November 2013
In the UK, Macmillan Children’s Books will be split into two divisions, Macmillan Under 6s and Macmillan Over 6s, reports the Bookseller. The Under 6s will look after books for...

Thursday, 21 November 2013
The nominations for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal for outstanding writing in children’s books and the 2014 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in children’s books have been announced. You...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
George R R Martin, Kate Atkinson, Neil Gaiman, David Nicholls and Samantha Shannon are among the high-profile authors who are offering their support for the Authors for the Philippines online...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Bantam) has won this year’s Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in the...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
In the UK, Hodder & Stoughton has offered to refund a customer for the purchase of Alex Ferguson’s My Autobiography following the discovery of multiple factual errors, reports the Mirror. Readers have...

Monday, 18 November 2013
Penguin Random House (PRH) and a group of British authors, called Authors for the Philippines, are donating funds towards the Red Cross aid relief effort in the Philippines for those...

Friday, 15 November 2013
The latest instalment in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series has sold over one million copies worldwide in its first week, reports Publishers Weekly. Hard Luck (Puffin), the eighth book...

Thursday, 14 November 2013
Irish author Eimear McBride has won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize for ‘boldly original fiction’ for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Text). McBride’s debut novel was selected for the £10,000...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Penguin India will launch a crime imprint with authors who are connected to Bollywood, reports Business Today. The Blue Salt imprint will launch in December with the titles Ghalib Danger...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In the US, self-help author Tim Ferriss has begun publishing audiobooks, reports TechCrunch. Ferriss, who is the author of books such as The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body (both Vermilion), is...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster has pulled the sale of a book about the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, amid doubt about its legitimacy, reports the Associated Press. Threshold...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, Amazon shoppers in New York and Los Angeles will be able to receive their parcels on Sundays as a result of a new deal between the retailer...