Six books have been shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award for new UK and Irish writers launched by Harrogate International Festivals in 2024 in recognition of crime author Val McDermid. Previous ...

Penguin Random House (PRH) UK has named 44 independent bookshops as recipients of the Penguin Children’s Bookshop Grant 2026, out of 159 applications. The publisher launched the £150k initiative in ...

Julian Brave NoiseCat has won the second Tadeusz Bradecki Prize for We Survived the Night (Profile Books), described by the judges as “an astonishing and meritorious winner”.

Christina Fonthes has won the The Authors’ Club 2026 Best First Novel Award for her novel Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder ...

As Richard Osman keeps hold of the number one slot in the Official UK Top 50 with The Impossible Fortune (Penguin) for a ...

Working and Homeless in America by journalist Brian Goldstone, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2026.

Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) has signed comedian and TV presenter Jo Brand’s “hilarious and irreverent” take on the realities ...

Wordsworth Editions profits rose 8% in the year to 31st May 2025 according to the company’s latest financial update, from ...

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Bonnier Books UK has promoted Jon Watt to the newly created role of group digital director as part of a wider series of ...

Bedford Square Publishers has bought The Missing Year, a “heartfelt and charming” contemporary romance by Owen Nicholls.

Hodder Press and Tall House Creative will publish two editions of Down Burrow Lane: Life and Love on the Farm by Michael ...