Stranded in France, the Miles Franklin winner reflects on what her country looks like from the outside: violent, racist and in denial This...

Report on reading habits of more than one million children also finds they read longer books, particularly during school closures Children ...

Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood among the six authors up for the £30,000 award This year’s shortlist for the Women’s prize ...

Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and ...

Florence + the Machine singer will collaborate with musician Thomas Bartlett and Pulitzer-winning playwright Martyna Majok on stage producti...

Journalist takes top gong and the non-fiction category at the Australian Book Industry Awards, with Archie Roach and Holocaust survivor Eddi...

WW Norton and Company has pledged to donate the amount of Bailey’s book advance to organisations that fight against sexual assault The publ...

Petition signed by more than 200 Simon & Schuster employees delivered to publishing house also calls for end to deals with members of Tr...

New figures from the Publishers Association show fiction and audiobooks did particularly well, with value of consumer sales up 7% on 2019 de...

McDormand wins third Academy Award for her role in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland Frances McDormand has won the best actress Oscar for Nomadland ...

Film about retirees struggling to make ends meet takes the top prize at the Academy Awards, while Chloé Zhao becomes first woman of colour t...

Lin Shu’s forgotten 1922 text, The Story of the Enchanted Knight – with a less deluded Don Quixote – in edition for China and Spain In the ...

Writers including Maria Stepanova and Éric Vuillard are up for the £50,000 prize, with the judges swaying for essays and autofiction over ‘g...

Sigrid Rausing denies financial interest in building, as court orders booksellers Kisch & Co to vacate Kreuzberg premises A UK-based Sw...