Six books have been shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award for new UK and Irish writers launched by Harrogate International Festivals in 2024 in recognition of crime author Val McDermid. Previous ...

Penguin Random House (PRH) UK has named 44 independent bookshops as recipients of the Penguin Children’s Bookshop Grant 2026, out of 159 applications. The publisher launched the £150k initiative in ...

Christina Fonthes has won the The Authors’ Club 2026 Best First Novel Award for her novel Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder ...

Julian Brave NoiseCat has won the second Tadeusz Bradecki Prize for We Survived the Night (Profile Books), described by the judges as “an astonishing and meritorious winner”.

As Richard Osman keeps hold of the number one slot in the Official UK Top 50 with The Impossible Fortune (Penguin) for a ...

The latest instalment in The Thursday Murder Club series from Richard Osman has retained its position at the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total ...

Working and Homeless in America by journalist Brian Goldstone, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2026.

Bedford Square Publishers has bought The Missing Year, a “heartfelt and charming” contemporary romance by Owen Nicholls.

Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) has signed comedian and TV presenter Jo Brand’s “hilarious and irreverent” take on the realities ...

AG Slatter has signed a three-book deal with Titan Books for two novels and a novella set in Slatter’s dark fantasy, ...

Hodder Press and Tall House Creative will publish two editions of Down Burrow Lane: Life and Love on the Farm by Michael ...

Bonnier Books UK has promoted Jon Watt to the newly created role of group digital director as part of a wider series of ...