Melville House Books

The city of Oxford has a rich literary history. The University of Oxford was established as early as 1095 and the first book printed in the city was in 1478,… Read more »

Want to get the hardcover of Dave Eggers’s new book, The Every? Well, you’ll have to get it at an independent bookstore—that’s the only place it will be available.   The… Read more »

Revealed for the first time in almost a century, 31 poems handwritten by Emily Brontë are going up for auction at Sotheby’s. The poems, featuring pencil revisions by Charlotte Brontë,… Read more »

Author Jeanette Winterson had an impromptu little bonfire on Friday 4th June … burning her own books. Why, you might ask, would an author do such a thing? Winterson herself is… Read more »

  Crowdfunding a project can be hard work. Leading up to its launch, creators have to figure out a whole host of things, such as production, fulfillment, pledge management …… Read more »

Calmness and courage—two qualities most of us have coveted over the last year—are to be celebrated in the form of two new characters in Roger Hargreaves’ hit Mr Men series,… Read more »

When John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel prize in 1962, the committee lauded his “realistic and imaginative writings … and keen social perception.” Known as he is for the rugged… Read more »

Blimey, it seems like gardening is barely out of the news at the moment, right?! One week we’re bringing you news of vegetable king Gerald Stratford’s book deal—and now this!… Read more »

Back in July 2015, it was announced that Boris Johnson, the then Mayor of London, would be writing Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius for which he received an advance of close to… Read more »

Bittersweet news this week for fans of spy fiction, as Viking reveals it is publishing Silverview, a posthumous novel by John le Carré, who died in December 2020 aged 89. Le Carré—born… Read more »

The latest in a long line of books being dropped amidst moral scandal is Blake Bailey’s new biography of Philip Roth. Published last month in the US, Philip Roth: The Biography hit… Read more »

Over the past year and a half or so many of us have found great joy in trying new recipes. If you are one of those people and you love… Read more »

Ever alert for signs of an ending to our long national nightmare, we here at [virtual, still … but not for long!] John Street were pleased to see from the… Read more »

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, is soon to become a published author. Her first book, The Bench, is written for children and will be illustrated by award-winning artist Christian Robinson. It highlights the special… Read more »

Cornholme is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of 1,694, where generally not very much happens. But this week it has hit headlines in the UK for… Read more »

Big Ben has been in the news quite a lot for a 157 year-old, 13-tonne, under-repair-since-2017 bell.* This major UK tourist attraction, housed in one of the most-photographed buildings in… Read more »

Holy hybrid! As reported today in industry tip-sheet Publishers Weekly, book behemoth Penguin Random House intends to keep its workplace “remote-friendly” going forward. In a memo to employees, CEO Madeline… Read more »

They say everyone has a book inside them—now a Devon arts festival is looking for people to become a “book” in partnership with the Human Library project. Plymouth’s RESPECT Festival… Read more »

Simon & Schuster is making headlines again, although this time not about the impending Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster mega-merger-to-dwarf-all-other-mergers. As well as publishing their own titles, S&S distribute books for… Read more »

(Brooklyn, NY) Melville House Publishing is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of THE STORM IS UPON US: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by… Read more »

Last week we had the privilege of participating in the Penguin Random House Spring Festival for librarians (thanks to everyone who stopped by!). Three of our authors joined us in… Read more »

It has been a long, cold, hard winter with much of the high street closed in England, but finally, this week, non-essential shops reopened for the first time since the… Read more »

For those lucky enough to have access to a garden or outdoor space during the pandemic, they have provided more than just an escape from the no-so-great indoors. And with… Read more »

If there is one thing we have learned over the years, it is that librarians are fierce! So it came as no surprise when the American Library Association (ALA) sent… Read more »

A new memoir from government insider Sir Alan Duncan is causing waves in the UK, attacking prominent Conservative politicians, including current Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sir Alan Duncan served as… Read more »

Last week it was confirmed, in the latest instance of “Marcus Rashford being an excellent human,” that the Manchester United striker—who is just 23!—is putting his name to a new… Read more »

Where will it all end? The incessant roundelay of mergers and acquisitions (“M&A,” in the parlance of our finance-bro pals—but, we digress) continues apace. According to Monday’s Wall Street Journal,… Read more »

Selling over 80 million copies worldwide and with a DreamWorks film to its name, the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey is a much loved and lauded series of children’s… Read more »

  Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also… Read more »