This year’s Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, to be held 6–15 October, is going to be an exciting, vibrant celebration, featuring an abunda... Read More...
Fans of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy woke to a surprise on Saturday morning when an extract from the first book of the author’s forthcoming compa... Read More...
Shattered, a book tracing Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign for president in 2016, is in the works for a television adaptation by HBO (to be produced by the sam... Read More...
The Wellcome Prize has been awarded to the French author Maylis de Kerangal for Mend the Living, a novel about organ donation. The story follows Simon, whose he... Read More...
Last week the winners of the annual Pulitzer awards in the U.S. were announced. Colson Whitehead, author of the acclaimed novel The Underground Railroad, about ... Read More...
The three-episode BBC adaptation of Jessie Burton’s best-selling novel The Miniaturist has now begun filming, with actresses Romola Garai and Anya Taylor-Joy st... Read More...
The nominees for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction have been revealed. The shortlist for the £25,000 prize includes Sebastian Barry, for the Costa a... Read More...
Where’d You Go Bernadette? is being adapted for the big screen, with big-name comedy actress Kristen Wiig attached to star in the film version to be directed by... Read More...
The Jhalak Prize, Britain’s award set up to celebrate marginalized and BAME writers, was won last week by Jacob Ross, for his crime novel The Bone Readers, whic... Read More...
One of the biggest events in Britain’s literary calendar hits London this week, as it’s time for the annual LBF, or London Book Fair – a huge week-long event wh... Read More...
In a surprise announcement this week, Philip Pullman revealed that a sequel to his highly successful children’s epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials – a stor... Read More...
The Stella Prize, the Australian literary award for female authors, has published its 2017 longlist, which is marked in tone by writers unwilling to shy away fr... Read More...
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