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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Barack and Michelle Obama sign book deals with Penguin Random House
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Books by former president and first lady believed to have sold for tens of millions of dollars and will focus on White House years Barack a...
Australian children's author Mem Fox detained by US border control: 'I sobbed like a baby'
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Author of Possum Magic was aggressively questioned over her visa status and later received an apology for her treatment by border guards Th...
Authors angry after Susan Hill accuses bookshop of anti-Trump censorship
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The novelist pulled out of an event at the Book Hive in Norwich because of its giveaway of books promoting resistance, prompting consternati...
Recipe found in medieval mystic’s writings was probably for ‘drugges’
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Margery Kempe was known for religious fervour, and a list in the manuscript of her pioneering autobiography has been analysed as a medicinal...
Monday, February 27, 2017
Publishing project photographs entire Sistine Chapel
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Collectors’ book contains hi-res images many of which are produced at 1:1 scale, including The Creation of Adam The last time the entire Si...
Waterstones chief defends decision to open unbranded stores
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James Daunt denies using subterfuge to attract customers with unbranded shops in Rye, Southwold and Harpenden The managing director of book...
John Hurt remembered at Oscars ceremony
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The late actor, star of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man, was honoured by the Academy in their annual In Memoriam montage Follow ...
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Will business rates hike be final chapter for high street bookshops?
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Booksellers group says rise will kill off independent stores and berates Treasury for cutting tax for sector’s biggest online rival Amazon ...
Friday, February 24, 2017
Oxford Dictionaries add 'clicktivism' and 'haterade' as new words for angry times
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Donald Trump’s presidency has already left its mark on the English language, according to lexicographers monitoring the most popular new voc...
Education publisher Pearson reports biggest loss in its history
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Pre-tax losses soar to £2.6bn as group – which is is selling Penguin Random House – is hit by slump in US textbook sales Pearson has report...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
25 million books are missing from UK libraries – but who's counting?
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Librarians call for a national audit after inventory count of Suffolk libraries reveals 10,000-book discrepancy between physical checks and ...
Clive James announces new poetry collection – Injury Time
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Celebrated broadcaster, critic and poet to publish sequel to Sentenced to Life – which was seen as farewell volume after his struggle with c...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Authors, actors and musicians say Trump order 'silences essential voices'
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Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith and others say ‘writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers are often at the vanguard in the fights...
Tom Hanks to publish first book, Uncommon Type: Some Stories
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The Forrest Gump star has turned his hand to short fiction with a collection of 17 tales, all themed around his passion for typewriters Som...
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