Audiobook streaming and the widespread adoption of smart speakers have made audiobooks "more available" to children, helping reluctant readers overcome literacy barriers, suggested Georgia Holmes at ...

Authors Marlene L Daut, Lyndal Roper and Sophia Rosenfeld have been named finalists for the Cundill History Prize, worth US$75,000 (£55,732). The award is one of the world’s leading prizes for a work ...

DK RED will publish Lessons from a Default Parent: Surviving the Front Line of Family Life (Without Losing Your Sh*t) by Lou Beckett, mother of two and one of the "silent partners" behind the ...

Author Kate Mosse addressed the Labour Party Conference on AI "theft", citing lack of an economic impact study for the protection of copyright. In a conversation with broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake, ...

Headline’s Tinder Press imprint has secured Under Story, the third novel by The Immortalists author Chloe Benjamin. Tinder Press publisher Mary-Anne Harrington acquired British Commonwealth rights ...

DHH Literary Agency has promoted Elena Berry to junior agent, effective immediately. Berry joined the agency 18 months ago as agency assistant, working with managing director David Headley across all ...

The Indigo Press has acquired Good Woman: A Reckoning by Savala Nolan. Publisher Susie Nicklin bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Rachel Clements at Abner Stein, on behalf of ...

The 2025 winners of The Week Junior Book Awards have been revealed at a celebration at Waterloo’s County Hall in London. The event was hosted by Bex Lindsay, and children’s books by established and ...

Twelve years after the publication of Bleeding Edge, American author Thomas Pynchon made a return to the literary scene, and elsewhere a space horror and two histories were also well received.

The president of the children’s publisher, Walker Books, Belinda Ioni Rasmussen, has told The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference that they are prioritising “brand focused publishing” and the way they ...

At the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool today (29th September), the chancellor Rachel Reeves committed to funding for a library in every state primary school by 2029. The announcement marks a ...