The National Poetry Centre has warned of "tragedy" if the Government's proposal to withdraw £5m of its Levelling Up funding, as outlined in the Budget, goes ahead.

Helen Comerford’s The Love Interest (Bloomsbury YA) and Yaba Badoe’s Man-Man and The Tree of Memories (Zephyr) are among the 119 books nominated for the 2025 Carnegies.

DK has acquired the independent publisher The Canelo Group. Canelo was founded in 2015 by Iain Millar, Michael Bhaskar and Nick Barreto, and has twice been shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the ...

The inaugural PEN Heaney Prize has been judged by poets Nick Laird, Paula Meehan and Shazea Quraishi, with Catherine Heaney joining them as non-voting Chair representing the Estate of Seamus Heaney.

According to new research published today by the National Literacy Trust (NLT), children and young people’s enjoyment of ...

Faïza Guène’s Men Don’t Cry, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Cassava Republic Press), and Lucie Bryon’s Thieves (Flying Eye ...

Harvill Secker deputy publishing director Katie Ellis-Brown has acquired The Good Liar by Denise Mina as part of a three-book ...

Canongate has acquired James Meek’s new novel Your Life Without Me. Publisher-at-large Francis Bickmore bought world rights (excluding the US) from Natasha Fairweather of RCW Literary Agency. The book ...

Kew Publishing has announced it has moved to Casemate, owned by Pen and Sword Books, for its book distribution after the ...

Hanif Kureishi’s Shattered (Hamish Hamilton), an “intense” memoir reflecting on the author’s life following a fall in 2022 ...

Pan Macmillan has acquired Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert’s Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: And Everyone Needs to Know Something About It.

Bloomsbury Lifestyle has acquired a début by an anonymous author known as "Slutty Cheff" in an 11-way auction.