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Book publishing may be famous (or infamous) for its--ahem--occasional 'throw it at the wall and see what sticks' approach; publishers aren't exactly sure what people are going to buy, so [...]

V S Naipaul's Nobel Prize for Literature was well-timed for Picador, his new publisher. As well as publishing Mr Naipaul's recent novel, Half a Life, Picador has begun reissuing the [...]

The Orange Prize for Fiction has teamed up with Borders and Bol.com to promote Orange Futures, an initiative showcasing books by young female authors. The committee of the Orange Prize [...]

The folks at Bantam are pleased that their star author Dean Koontz is enjoying another holiday hit with the mass market edition of Seize the Night. The book got some [...]

WINNER FOR 2011 HARLEQUIN UK--MILLS & BOON NEW VOICES From a strong shortlist of 10, Mills & Boon's New Voices campaign triumphs this year for trying to achieve something different. [...]

Sadie Jones' debut (Chatto) has already attracted attention, cited in both the Daily Mailand the Guardian as a title to look out for this year. Further publicity includes Waterstone's New [...]

Here we are in September, the peak month for publishing literary fiction. During these 30 days we will see new books from many of our leading authors. But why this [...]

First-time writers from Ghana and Nigeria and a midwife from Uganda have won awards in the third Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa. The Junior Award was won by Elizabeth Irene [...]

W H Smith's defunct Fresh Talent award is being relaunched as a summer reading promotion. The Fresh Talent award ran from 1993 to 2002, and helped launch authors including Marian [...]

Andrea Levy's Small Island (Review) made history last week by becoming the first book to add a Whitbread Novel of the Year award to an Orange Prize. It remains to [...]

Little Tiger Press has announced the winner of its Search for a Story competition, which was launched in association with the Travelling Book Company. Ann Meek left, who won the [...]

There were no surprises as J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was voted the 'nation's favourite book' in the BBC Big Read finale, watched by 2.4 million [...]

For Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire, the power of television in combination with (he National Book Award made for a big impact. The book's 46,000-copy first printing was batch' out [...]

Literary prizes are still a vital tool for drawing people into bookshops and remain attractive to business sponsors, a seminar on the subject heard last week. The debate--'Literary Prizes: Who [...]