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

DK Red has snapped up How to Stay Sane in a House Share, the début book from Alice Wilkinson, deputy head of health features ...

Torva, an imprint of Penguin Random House, has won the auction for the new book from founder of Philosophy Break Jack Maden.

One More Chapter has scooped The Soul Thief, a horror thriller set in Victorian Manchester, from Samantha Lee Howe, writing ...

Faïza Guène’s Men Don’t Cry, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Cassava Republic Press), has been shortlisted for the inaugural ...

Corsair has acquired a trilogy of sci-fi novels by BAFTA award-winning animator, artist and author Mikey Please. Sarah ...

Watkins Media has scooped surfing legend Al Mennie’s "evocative" book on night swimming. Watkins Acquisition editor Sophie ...

Firefly Press has scooped Live, a "stunning" coming-of-age novel from Luke Palmer. Publisher Penny Thomas acquired world rights from Jane Finigan at Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency for ...

Cinto Press, an imprint of Bath Publishing, has signed Tom Gaisford’s "ambitious" debut novel, Sanctuary. Founders David Chaplin and Helen Lacey acquired English-language world rights from Tom Cull at ...

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.

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.

Oneworld has acquired Sepideh Gholian’s memoir, The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club: Surviving Iran’s Most Notorious Prison in 16 Recipes.