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Our top picks of the month for book clubs
From the writer of Cat Person, the 2018 New Yorker short story that went viral, this debut collection covers sex and dating in the modern world. Roupenian’s stories about people grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger feel fresh and of the moment, addressing directly the lives of young …
Kids books, events & news for February
Follow the daily and seasonal ebb and flow of activity around a lig…
YA books, events & news for February
Brianna is 16 and an aspiring rapper, hoping to follow in the footsteps of her fam…
What our Teen Advisory Board have been reading over summer
With the summer holidays behind us and the new year raring to go, our Teen Advisory Board have been very busy reflecting on the past year and looking forward to some new and forthcoming novels. Find out what they’ve been reading below.
Grace Best book read in 2018The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I was in awe of the authors’ creativit…
The Wellcome Book Prize longlist 2019
The longlist for this year’s Wellcome book prize has been announced.
This prize is awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction that ‘celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature’. Australian book The Trauma Cleaner is one of 12 titles on the 2019 longlist, which this year is dominated by memoirs, and also features popular science, novels and medical history.
Th…
The best new crime reads of January and February
Jamie Brandt has just about had enough of her two girls – in the same way any parent who loves their kids can also tire of them after a long week – when she leaves them in the car outside Kmart to pick something up. But by the time she gets back to her car, they are both gone. And so Jamie’s aunt hires Alice Vega – private detective, finde…
Mark’s Say, February 2019
A recent study by the Authors Guild in the United States has shown that the median income for writers in the US dropped 42% between 2009 and 2017. The director of the Authors Guild, Mary Rasenberger, said that in the mid-twentieth century a good literary fiction author could earn a middle-class living just by writing. Royalties and advances are down almost 30% and other sources of income from new…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Detained Kurdish journalist Behro…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
The International Dylan Thomas Prize longlist 2019
The longlist for this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced.
This Prize is run in partnership with Swansea University and is awarded to the best literary work in the English language written by an author aged 39 and under. The winning author will receive £30,000.
The 12 longlisted titles are…
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Hold by Michael Donkor How the Light Ge…
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