Posted on September 8, 2023 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award has been revealed. The themes of these tales are decidedly...
Posted on December 13, 2022 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The best annual literary award revealed its winner last week (and we missed it!). The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest...
Posted on October 7, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Author Peter Robinson, best known for his Inspector Banks crime novels, has died. The seventy-two-year-old writer's publisher announced today that...
Posted on August 31, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Who is the Queen of Crime? If you ask Agatha Christie's literary estate, it is she — and only she....
Posted on June 10, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Close the book on the Costa Awards. Officials with Costa Coffee, which sponsored the fifty-year-old prize, announced today on social...
Posted on May 4, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A 2020 biography of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is being translated into English for the first time — and updated....
Posted on January 12, 2022 at 11:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A beloved children's author is making a comeback — sort of. The Bookseller reports that Jacqueline Wilson will bring back...
Posted on January 4, 2022 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The ebook licensing battle between traditional publishers and libraries seems to currently be favoring the former. The Bookseller reports that...
Posted on October 12, 2021 at 1:07 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been chosen as this year’s International Writer of Courage. The award goes to a writer...
Posted on September 10, 2021 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Sally Rooney fever is no joke. Her UK publisher has unveiled a mural inspired by the cover of her new...