Faïza Guène’s Men Don’t Cry, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Cassava Republic Press), and Lucie Bryon’s Thieves (Flying Eye ...

The inaugural PEN Heaney Prize has been judged by poets Nick Laird, Paula Meehan and Shazea Quraishi, with Catherine Heaney joining them as non-voting Chair representing the Estate of Seamus Heaney.

The National Poetry Centre has warned of "tragedy" if the government’s proposal to withdraw £5m of its Levelling Up funding, as outlined in the Budget, goes ahead. The government proposed last ...

A M Dassu’s Kicked Out: A Boy, Everywhere Story (Old Barn Books), Helen Comerford’s The Love Interest (Bloomsbury YA) and Yaba Badoe’s Man-Man and The Tree of Memories (Zephyr) are among the 119 books ...

DK has acquired the independent publisher The Canelo Group. Canelo was founded in 2015 by Iain Millar, Michael Bhaskar and Nick Barreto, and has twice been shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the ...

According to new research published today by the National Literacy Trust (NLT), children and young people’s enjoyment of ...

Hanif Kureishi’s Shattered (Hamish Hamilton), an “intense” memoir reflecting on the author’s life following a fall in 2022 ...

Harvill Secker deputy publishing director Katie Ellis-Brown has acquired The Good Liar by Denise Mina as part of a three-book ...

Kew Publishing has announced it has moved to Casemate, owned by Pen and Sword Books, for its book distribution after the ...

Canongate has acquired James Meek’s new novel Your Life Without Me. Publisher-at-large Francis Bickmore bought world rights (excluding the US) from Natasha Fairweather of RCW Literary Agency. The book ...

Pan Macmillan has acquired Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert’s Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: And Everyone Needs to Know Something About It.

The Borough Press has acquired Imani Thompson’s “blistering and addictive” debut novel Honey, about a PhD student at Cambridge University who develops a compulsion for murder.