Thursday, 27 November 2014
In the UK, literary agency Curtis Brown is launching an online book group that offers readers a chance to read pre-publication books from the agency’s ‘most exciting new and undiscovered...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
The winners of this year’s UK National Book Awards have been announced. Among the winners are UK Author of the Year David Nicholls (Us, Hodder) and International Author of the...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Debut Irish author Colin Barrett has won the £10,000 (A$18,467) Guardian First Book Award for his short story collection Young Skins (Jonathan Cape), reports the Bookseller. Barrett’s book, which follows the lives of...

Wednesday, 26 November 2014
PEN America has launched a new prize for emerging writers for ‘an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue’. The PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, worth US$10,000...

Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Goodreads has published data analysis that shows its members prefer to read books by writers of their own sex, reports the Guardian. The data showed male authors accounted for 45...

Wednesday, 26 November 2014
In the US, author James Patterson has launched a new campaign called ‘Save Our Books’ to increase support early childhood education and generate more funding for public libraries and librarians,...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
The French Booksellers Association has launched a national campaign for independent bookshops, reports the Bookseller. The campaign, which runs until the end of 2015, includes a logo to build recognition...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
In the US, judge Denise Cote has granted final approval to a settlement deal in Apple’s ebook price-fixing case, reports Publishers Weekly. Under the terms of the deal, however, Apple...

Monday, 24 November 2014
In the UK, Penguin Random House has announced it will create a new PR director role for the children’s division, following the departure of Adele Minchin. The Bookseller reports that...