Monday, 9 December 2013
In the UK, Penguin is set to relaunch its nonfiction imprint Pelican, reports the Bookseller. Pelican will return in May 2014 with the publication of five ‘concise introductory books’ aimed...

Friday, 6 December 2013
In the UK, the organisers of the Folio Prize will stage a two-day fiction festival next year in the lead-up to the announcement of the inaugural prize on 10 March,...

Friday, 6 December 2013
In the US, Harlequin publisher and CEO Donna Hayes will retire from her position the end of the year and be succeeded by Harlequin North America chief operating officer Craig...

Thursday, 5 December 2013
Indian-American author Manil Suri has won this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award for his third novel The City of Devi (Bloomsbury). Suri’s book was selected from...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
In Canada, the Quebec Government has introduced legislation to regulate book prices by limiting discounts on books to 10%, reports globalnews.com. Under the legislation, each new print or digital book for...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Stoner by US author John Williams (Vintage) has been named the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2013 in the UK. The novel, which was first published in 1965 and...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
The winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2013 have been announced. The winners included And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury) in the Best Fiction category and...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Amazon has announced plans for a drone delivery service to be ready by 2015. The service, called Prime Air, will aim to deliver packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
In the UK, Hodder is set to launch a new self-help imprint called Yellow Kite, reports the Bookseller. Yellow Kite will launch in January with a list of nine titles,...

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...