JK Rowling returns award after Kerry Kennedy criticism
JK Rowling has decided she will be giving back an award associated with the US Kennedy family, this comes afterContinue Reading
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Literary world braces for 600 books to be published on one day
The 3rd of September us due to be a very busy day for the world of literature. Around 600 brandContinue Reading
Black Writers’ Guild reports progress as publishers confront diversity problems
The Black Writers Guild has called for sweeping changes in the UK publishing industry
Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114
Ocean Vuong has become the seventh author in the Future Library, an ongoing art project that will see contemporary authorsContinue Reading
Middlemarch and other works by women reissued under their real names
A number of novels written by women using male pseudonym’s have now been reissued using the authors’ actual names.
Stephen King announces new crime novel ‘Later’ coming in 2021
It has been announced that Stephen King will be releasing a new novel in 2021 and that it will beContinue Reading
Authors condemn Saudi Arabia’s bid to host World Science Fiction Convention
Controversy is abound in the science-fiction writing circle after Saudi Arabia bids to host the World Science Fiction Convention
Hilary Mantel up for third Booker prize
It has been announced that Hilary Mantel’s new book, The Mirror and the Light, has been long-listed for the 2020 BookerContinue Reading
Author loses spot in Top 10 after buying 400 copies of his own book
The author Mark Dawson has just lost his spot on the Sunday Times bestseller chart for his thriller The CleanerContinue Reading
Book by Donald Trump’s niece has sold almost 1m copies on its first day
Mary Trumps salacious tell all book has sold 1 million copies in just 24 hours
Popular children’s author Joanna Cole dies aged 75
Joanna Cole, the author of the Magic School Bus series of children’s books has sadly passed away at the ageContinue Reading
Philip Pullman will release a His Dark Materials novella in October
The Novella was written in 2004 and auctioned for charity and introduces us to an adult Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon
Gender gap in children’s reading has grown in the UK during lockdown
A new study has suggested that during the UK’s lockdown boys have fallen even further behind girls when it comes to reading regularly and enjoying it.
The Last Terry Pratchett Stories will be Published in September
Many of the stories in The Time-travelling Caveman have never been published in a book
Rowling joins Rushdie and Atwood to warn against ‘intolerance’
JK Rowling has joined Salman Rushdie has signed a controversial open letter condemning “an intolerance of imposing views.”
