This week, John Banville and Ocean Vuong discussed how their feelings about particular times and places influenced their ...

The government has announced a mandatory reading test for all children aged 13 in a bid to “drive up reading standards”.

Doubleday has acquired Hermit Summer, the “stunning” debut novel from Norwegian author Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Firefly Press has signed an English adaptation of Megan Angharad Hunter’s Wales Book of the Year-winning novel, Behind the ...

David Fickling Books has acquired The Summer After the Night Before by Lisa Williamson, a contemporary YA novel exploring ...

John Murray has acquired Takes the Sun by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate and current Jones’ ...

Workers at the British Library in London have voted to take strike action in a dispute over pay. Over 300 Public and ...

Diamond Kahn & Woods (DKW) co-founder Ella Kahn is to join Max Edwards’ Apple Tree Literary (ATL) as managing director, ...

Industry figures assess the current picture book market and hail the importance of awards for new talent in a crowded field.

The National Literacy Trust and the Department for Education have unveiled "Go All In" as the brand identity for the National ...

Hay House has moved for the first book by Iain Ward, AKA “The King of Chemo”, who turned campaigner and fundraiser after ...