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By Anna Richardson Geometric intersecting lines, strong colours and hallucinatory compositions - it might appear that artists Dalek and Delta have more in common than striking pseudonyms. However, although their [...]

Ask any new mother in the UK, and she will almost certainly have heard of Annabel Karmel. Her kitchen will more than likely have a sauce-stained copy of the Complete [...]

Peter Ackroyd will present a new series for Sky Arts and ITV London, inspired by his 2007 book, Thames: Sacred River (Chatto). In the four-part high-definition series, 'Peter Ackroyd's Thames', [...]

Frances Fyfield has won the 20,000 £ Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of the year, for Blood from Stone (Sphere), while French author Dominique Manotti has taken [...]

Kate Summerscale (right) has won this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction for her account of the Road Hill House murder, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, prompting Bloomsbury to bring [...]

Kate Rew's Wild Swim (Guardian Books) has had a decent amount of exposure over the past couple of weeks, with serials, features and interviews featuring in many newspapers. Coinciding with [...]

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (Cape) was crowned the Best of the Booker this week, with 36% of the public vote. The shortlist, which had been whittled down to six from [...]

Five is to air a new documentary series, 'Brits Who Made the Modern World', presented by broadcaster and writer Peter Snow. The six-part series will look at the stories of [...]

The Dundee Literary Festival has revealed a line-up including William Boyd, Ian Rankin, James Kelman and Vivienne Westwood, with debut and children's authors also featuring strongly. Taking place from 19th [...]

Chatto author Rose Tremain has won the 13th Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her novel The Road Home, while Joanna Kavenna took home the Award for New Writers for [...]

Century has lined up substantial media coverage to support the release of Perfect Match, Jane Moore's latest novel, on 19th June. Journalist and TV presenter Moore will be a guest [...]

Columbia Pictures has acquired rights from Scholastic Media to develop Scholastic's bestselling Goosebumps series by R L Stine into a movie franchise. The titles have been published in more than [...]

Little, Brown's unexpected decision to bring forward publication of Cherie Blair's memoirs, Speaking for Myself,, sparked blanket media coverage last weekend, with booksellers preparing for impressive first-week sales. According to [...]

Five is producing a new sex advice programme based on Dorling Kindersley title Sex.' How to Do Everything by New York sex therapists Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey. Broadcast at [...]

Memoirs from Julian Barnes and J G Ballard have made it to the longlist for this year's BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Barnes' Nothing to Be Frightened of [...]

This year's BBC Proms series at the Royal Albert Hall, which is once again accompanied by a guide from BBC Books, will see the return of former classical 'wild child' [...]

Little, Brown is relaunching Piatkus author and US bestseller Nora Roberts' stand-alone romance/suspense titles in the UK in response to extensive market research which found that British readers were put [...]

ITV1 will broadcast a new drama based on Val McDermid's A Place of Execution (HarperCollins). The drama will be broadcast in three one-hour episodes, starring Juliet Stevenson as a TV [...]

The trend for 'misery' or 'inspirational' memoirs is here to stay, as readers' appetite for accounts of hardship, abuse and redemption continues unabated. Most publishing houses have rifles on their [...]

Former SAS man, outdoors expert and TV personality Bear Grylls is branching out into children's publishing with a series of adventure titles. To be published by Random House Children's Books' [...]

When you have wanted to be a writer since you were four, coming from a family of lawyers might not be a great help--but it didn't deter Holly McQueen. As [...]

The BBC is planning a multi-platform drama project to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, written by journalist and author Ronan Bennett. In a collaboration between BBC [...]

Ever since reading Enid Blyton's The Secret Seven, Sophie Hannah has been obsessed with crime fiction, especially mystery and suspense. She's a fan of Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and Alfred [...]

The question of whether criminals should be allowed to profit from their crimes through publishing, interviews or other means continues to exercise politicians and policy makers. Gordon Brown addressed the [...]

Patricia Wood has had many incarnations. She has served in the US army, been a horse riding instructor, and taught marine science to problem children. She is a PhD student [...]

A recently rediscovered play by Noel Coward will be staged in London next month, for the first time since the 1920s. 'The Better Half' was turned up by University of [...]

The publication of Tony Blackburn's memoirs, Poptastic: My Life in Radio (Cassell Illustrated), will be accompanied by extensive media coverage, coinciding with the BBC's plans to celebrate 40 years of [...]

HarperCollins will relaunch Agatha Christie's classics once again this autumn, in response to market research and the author's enduring small screen popularity. It is the third new look across the [...]

Titan Books is publishing a new tie-in to television programme 'Bones', which is based on Kathy Reichs' series of bestsellers. The publisher has acquired worldwide publishing rights from 20th Century [...]

Graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, who created a number of iconic album covers including Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', is featuring in a steady stream of media coverage ahead [...]

Mitchell Beazley is publishing Dawn Harper's first book to coincide with her new Channel 4 series, 'Embarrassing Illnesses'. Dr Dawn's Health Check is out next week ahead of the prime-time [...]

The National Portrait Gallery is to release a new edition of Susan Bright's Face of Fashion--the catalogue accompanying its current exhibition of the same name--following the title's success in the [...]

Mary Portas is a force to be reckoned with--a retail force, to be precise. Also known as 'Mary, Queen of Shops', she has been in the business for more than [...]

Transworld is downplaying the news that its author Louis Walsh will no longer be a judge on ITV's 'The X Factor' talent show when it returns in a new series [...]

Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Vintage), has written a television drama for BBC1. 'Coming Down the Mountain' is a 90-minute film [...]

BBC Books is publishing the tie-in to a major new television series from the producers of 'The Naked Chef' and 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares'. How to Shop with Mary, Queen of [...]

The worldwide furore surrounding Channel 4's 'Celebrity Big Brother' continues, and it is having an effect on the housemates' fortunes in the book world. Jade Goody was evicted last Friday, [...]

HarperCollins has cancelled the paperback of Jade Goody's autobiography--scheduled to appear next month--following controversy over her 'Celebrity Big Brother' appearance. An HC spokesperson said: 'In light of recent events, HarperCollins [...]

Alan Titchmarsh is expanding his repertoire with a number of new TV and radio projects. The popular gardener is to front a new interactive history series for UKTV History. 'Britain's [...]

Independent publisher Quercus has its first major literary prize nomination under its belt, thanks to the inclusion of The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney on a Costa Book Awards [...]

With less than two months to go until Christmas, some might start chiming ''tis the season to be jolly'--but for many the run-up to Christmas means not mulled wine and [...]

The BBC is to broadcast a new television series based on a forthcoming book by anatomist Alice Roberts. The six-part BBC2 series, based on Roberts' Don't Die Young (Bloomsbury), starts [...]

New publications on Thomas Hardy are set to dominate the airwaves in coming weeks, with a number of programmes dedicated to the novelist and poet. Claire Tomalin's biography Thomas Hardy: [...]

Orhan Pamuk's publishers around the world were rushing through reprints and preparing for a sales onslaught after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm last week. Pamuk [...]

David Blunkett's The Blunkett Tapes (Bloomsbury) is receiving blanket media coverage this week, spear-headed by a Daily Mail and Guardian joint serialisation deal. The newspapers ran daily, multi-page extracts from [...]

The state of childhood in Britain is increasingly under the spotlight, as public debate about children and their state of mind intensifies. A letter in the Daily Telegraph, written by [...]

HarperCollins is strengthening its television tie-in stable with a number of new titles. The publisher has signed a deal to publish the book to accompany the second series of Channel [...]

As autumn starts to set in and leaves start to turn, it is once again time to take a minute to gaze upwards. As carbon emission battles intensify, the UK [...]

John Grisham is to appear at a UK festival for the first time later this year. The bestselling author will visit Cheltenham Literature Festival on 7th October to talk about [...]

Sceptre is to publish a book by controversial artist Sebastian Horsley, which was previously bought by Fourth Estate. Dandy in the Underworld charts Horsley's years as a dandy, an artist, [...]