Research from the National Literacy Trust has exposed the decline of children and young people writing for pleasure, suggesting a 50% drop in enjoyment over the past 15 years.

In one of the quietest weeks of the year so far, Claire Douglas’ The New Neighbours (Penguin) has moved straight into the ...

Genevieve Carver, Ali Smith, Jen Stout and Joni Buchanan are some of the writers shortlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize ...

The global academic publisher Emerald Publishing has been recognised for its commitment to gender equality for the second ...

An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing ...

Novelist Robert Harris, author of Conclave, has won Give a Book's The Pleasure of Reading Prize for 2025, worth £10,000.

Gallery YA won a five-way auction to Our Wicked Gifts, a dark romantasy thriller from Kathryn Foxfield. Publisher Yasmin ...

Pushkin Press is set to publish a non-fiction book following the "behind-the-scenes journey through the troubled political ...

Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site ...

Electric Monkey, the yound adult imprint of Farshore – part of HarperCollins – is set to publish the debut YA novel from ...

Cassell, part of Octopus Publishing Group, is set to publish F1 commentator Ted Kravitz’s "insider’s view" book.

HarperFiction has acquired the rights to Nothing Good Happens After 2am, the third novel from media lawyer and writer Niamh ...