Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list
Each year, around her official birthday, Queen Elizabeth II awards “Honours” to deserving people from all walks of life, recognising people who have made achievements in public life and/or committed themselves to “serving… Read more »
Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian winner of International Booker Prize
Founded in 2005, The International Booker Prize is a welcome date on the calendar each year, not only because it celebrates international literature and their translations into English but because… Read more »
Unearthed: a rare 17th century book predicting extra-terrestrial life is up for auction
Dutch astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor Christiaan Huygens is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. As well as inventing the pendulum clock, founding the wave theory of light… Read more »
Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library
Back in January 2022, a new library was opened Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa. Named Abrehot, which is Amharic for enlightenment, it is largest in the country on a plot 19,000… Read more »
Free children’s book celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee criticised as too ‘Anglocentric’ by Welsh and Scottish governments
Last October, we wrote about the UK government’s plan to create a new children’s book in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, which would be given away free to… Read more »
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million
Best known for her classic Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia remains a neglected but significant part of her literary canon. From childhood she was writing stories and poems, alongside and often… Read more »
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 year reign
This summer marks The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history, who has been on the throne for 70 years, since 1952. As part of the celebrations, The… Read more »
Shelf Wars: Ashley Tisdale buys 400 books to ‘style’ her home and Twitter explodes
What do your bookshelves say about you? Have you been collecting for years, cramming books in any which way you can? Do you carefully stylise, organising by colour or category?… Read more »
Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon’s return policy damaging to authors and publishers?
Is it ok to read a book in its entirety and then return it to get your money back? This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to… Read more »
Book said to reveal Anne Frank’s betrayer is pulled after being discredited
In January 2022, Dutch publisher Ambo Anthos, and English publisher HarperCollins brought out the book The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation which controversially revealed the likely betrayer of Anne Frank and… Read more »