Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles: Stories (Doubleday), a collection of six...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the BBC will run a year-long campaign in 2016 to celebrate great authors and encourage reading, reports the Bookseller. The campaign, run in partnership with the Reading...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. The eight shortlisted titles are: Before, During, After (Richard Bausch, Atlantic); Book...

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...