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 »
Belgian publisher donates over a thousand books to railway station libraries
While the closure of a publishing house is never something to celebrate, one Belgian company have found a way to extend their legacy: by donating 1,100 books to little free libraries.… Read more »
Little Toller and Bluemoose unite to aid Ukraine
It is easy to feel helpless in times like these. What can we realistically do to help in a small way, as an estimated two million people flee Ukraine? How… Read more »
Death threats and bookshop fines: Hungary faces scrutiny over anti-LGBTQ ruling
In 2020, Hungary passed a law preventing citizens from legally changing their gender. Later that year, they decided to ban same-sex couples from adopting children. Only last month, a law was passed in parliament… Read more »
First Irish woman to win International Dublin Literary Award
“The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died.” Well, then. If… Read more »
Nobel Nabobs Named; Swedes Suffer Rep Wreckage
It has been a tough couple of years for a number of cultural institutions, many of which are struggling, like brontosauri in a tar pit, to adopt to the new… Read more »
Booker Prize moves online; digital tomes abound
The famed Booker Prize, like everything else, has moved online this year. The prestigious award, which has a long history of skulduggery, controversy, and fractiousness, has been a relatively sedate… Read more »
New Ferrante book received with enthusiasm abroad
The mysterious anonymous author who goes by the pen name Elena Ferrante has released a new novel in Europe, an event that has been greeted with long lines at recently… Read more »
UK wholesaler Gardners reopens to fulfill single book orders
As all of us in the book biz know, we don’t have a ‘biz’ at all without a distribution network. We can publish, publicise, pontificate and, er, something else beginning… Read more »
London Book Fair cancellation highlights need for IRL meetings
On Wednesday it was announced—after much speculation, and a raft of major publisher withdrawals—that the London Book Fair, scheduled for March 10th-12th, would not be going ahead. In an announcement… Read more »