Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, a debut novel has sold at auction for ‘close to US$2 million’ (A$2.14 million) after a bidding war in which 10 publishers bid more than $1 million...

Monday, 11 November 2013
In the US, journalist Matti Friedman has won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of...

Monday, 11 November 2013
The shortlist for this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: My Education (Susan Choi, Short Books); The Last Banquet (Jonathan...

Monday, 11 November 2013
In the UK, US author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize for her short-story collection Battleborn (Granta). Vaye Watkins was presented with the prize, which is worth...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (Gollancz) has won the Best Fantasy Novel category at the 2013 British Fantasy Awards, which were presented at the World Fantasy Convention...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
In Canada, Lynn Coady has won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short-story collection Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press). She wins C$50,000 (A$50,340). Coady’s book was chosen by judges...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
In the UK, author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the £20,000 (A$33,802) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for The Pike (Fourth Estate), her biography of the controversial Italian artist and nationalist...

Monday, 4 November 2013
In the US, Macmillan imprint Picador is launching a Modern Classics list, beginning with the 25th-anniversary edition of Jonathan Franzen’s first novel The Twenty-Seventh City in November, reports Publishers Weekly....

Monday, 4 November 2013
In the UK, 57 employees have been made redundant at audiobook publisher and retailer AudioGO after the company was placed into administration at the end of October, reports the Bookseller....

Friday, 1 November 2013
In the UK, HarperCollins is partnering with bookselling chain Foyles to offer print and ebook bundles on eight selected titles, reports the Bookseller. The eight print titles will come shrink-wrapped...

Friday, 1 November 2013
Amazon Publishing has announced plans to publish a weekly digital literary magazine focused on short fiction and poetry, reports Publishers Weekly. One Day will focus on one fiction writer and...

Thursday, 31 October 2013
HarperCollins has launched two new websites that sell CS Lewis ebooks direct to consumers, reports the Bookseller. The websites www.cslewis.com and www.narnia.com are the result of a partnership between HarperCollins...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster has announced plans to launch a new imprint dedicated to science-fiction, fantasy and horror books, reports Publishers Weekly. The as-yet-unnamed imprint, which will be...

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
In the UK, WH Smith is selling ebooks again after taking its store offline following the discovery of a number of explicit self-published ebooks provided by Kobo, reports the Bookseller....

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
In Europe, a survey has found that close to a quarter of Europeans have bought books or magazines online in the past year, reports the Bookseller. Eurostat, the statistical office...

Monday, 28 October 2013
In the UK, the winners of the 2013 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards have been announced. Mick Herron won the Gold Dagger, which is presented for the best crime...

Monday, 28 October 2013
Larry Kirshbaum will step down as head of Amazon Publishing in early 2014 and return to his work as a literary agent, reports Publishers Weekly. Amazon said in a statement...

Friday, 25 October 2013
US author Rebecca Stead has won this year’s Guardian children’s fiction prize for her young adult novel Liar & Spy (Text). Stead’s novel, which tells the story of a 12-year-old...

Friday, 25 October 2013
Scottish author Angela Jackson has won this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for her debut novel The Emergence of Judy Taylor (Constable & Robinson). Jackson’s novel was...

Thursday, 24 October 2013
In the UK, the next book in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series will receive Penguin’s largest ever first print run for a children’s book, reports the Bookseller....

Thursday, 24 October 2013
The longlist for the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Book of Destruction (Anand, translated by Chetana Sachidanandan, Penguin); Goat Days (Benyamin,...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Australian author Thomas Keneally has been announced as a member of a new advisory council for the £60,000 (A$100,385) Man Booker International Prize, along with Australian-born critic and former publisher...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books has been announced. The finalists for the £10,000 (A$16,720) award are: Bird Sense (Tim Birkhead,...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
In the US, the Jewish Book Council has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. This year’s nonfiction contenders for the $US100,000 (A$103,600) prize, which...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
The city of Krakow in Poland has been named the seventh UNESCO City of Literature. It joins Edinburgh, Iowa City, Dublin, Reykjavik, Norwich and Melbourne, which was designated as a...

Monday, 21 October 2013
In the UK, WH Smith has relaunched its website after taking the site offline for nearly four days, reports the Bookseller. However, the retailer is not currently selling ebooks and...