Leading Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka longlisted for 2022 Booker Prize
As the current crisis in Sri Lanka deepens, this novel, set amid the island’s civil war and insurgency, feels extraordinarily timely Sri...
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Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Case Study Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
Graeme Macrae Burnet has been longlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel Case Study. This is the second time the Glasgow-based author...
Cogito publishing launches spring 22 with A Man of Understanding by acclaimed novelist Diana Janney
A new independent ‘publisher of ideas’ launches in the UK this spring. Cogito Publishing will publish literary fiction, thought-provoking...
New Year by Juli Zeh – now available in English for the first time, translated by Alta L. Price
‘New year, new you. What’s great about cycling is that all you need to do is pedal…’ Lanzarote on New Year’s Day: Henning is cycling up...
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Case Study launches with a mystery bookshop tour
Case Study receives stunning reviews The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project returns with Case Study, which centres around a...
International Booker nominee Jaap Robben visits UK October 2021 for three live events!
London, Cheltenham and Sheffield events feature International Booker-nominated Summer Brother and launching Biography of a Fly, the Dutch...
Why the imperfect parent is actually the best parent – The School of Life’s new book The Good Enough
The School of Life published its smart, warm, and comforting new book The Good Enough Parent last month – a series of lessons in how to...
Imagine you are a young girl in Damascus… war is raging all around you
The new novel by Samar Yazbek, acclaimed author of The Crossing – Planet of Clay Syrian author Samar Yazbek is the acclaimed author of...
Many of us have, or had, an imaginary friend. What if yours was… Jane Austen?
This month sees publication of Janet Todd’s delightfully inventive, Jane-Austen inspired novel, Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden...
Announcing the first novel to describe adoption from a would-be adoptive father’s perspective…
Approval by John D. Rutter (Saraband, September) Winner, Northbound prize In this powerful debut, a man’s life is interrogated as part of...
The insider’s account of covid: Spike: The Virus Vs The People
- The inside story by Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja (Profile books) Thursday 22 July saw the publication of one of the most important...
Julia Stonehouse tells the story of her father John Stonehouse, the runaway MP in powerful new book
On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity,...
Mensch to publish Delia Smith’s You Matter
Multi-million bestselling author issues a call for the Examined Life Mensch will publish British television host and cookbook writer...
Adam Farrer wins NorthBound Book Award
Memoir Cold Fish Soup awarded prize as part of 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards Manchester-based writer Adam Farrer has won the third annual...
Guy Kennaway wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2021 for The Accidental Collector
Guy Kennaway has won the UK’s most important prize for comic fiction, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2021 for his novel The...
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year
Bloomsbury to publish I ALONE CAN FIX IT: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig...
Foot Notes by Guy Kennaway and Hussein Sharif
Why two very different people are talking with one another about race. When Guy Kennaway, 63, a white, middle class, overweight, English,...
Book of the week – Midnight in Cairo by Raphael Cormack (Saqi books, 6 May)
Midnight in Cairo is the first book to lift the lid on the hidden world of Cairo in the 1920s – we all know about Berlin and Paris in the...
Book of the week – Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke (Icon books, April 2021)
Flying seems a distant memory for many of us just now – what better escapist read than a book that evokes the golden age of air travel?...
Book of the Week: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder (Swift Press, spring 2021)
Nomadland starring Frances McDormand and directed by Chloé Zhao, was a hit at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs and is widely tipped for...