A true tale of Holocaust survival wins the Costa Book of the Year Award
Prizes. They really matter in the UK. Win a prize and a book can go from selling a couple of thousand copies to tens of thousands in a matter of… Read more »
Celebrated editor and author Diana Athill dies, age 101
I first came across Diana Athill when I worked at Granta in the early noughties. Shortly after the publication of Stet: An Editor’s Life, and as a publishing newbie, I… Read more »
WHSmith is coming to an American airport near you…
Remember when we reported WHSmith were voted this year’s worst High Street retailer in the UK? Well guess what, my American friends – soon you’ll be able to enjoy the WHSmith… Read more »
Homogeneity vs Independence: Waterstones buys UK indie chain Foyles
Has the face of independent bookselling in the UK just got smaller? Foyles (or to give the company its formal name, W & G Foyle Ltd) is a family-owner book… Read more »
Philip Pullman is not happy about bookshop discounting – could the UK be about to change its pricing laws…?
Bookselling is a strange, old business. In the US and the UK, book prices can fluctuate widely from shop to shop. But in some countries, this is not the case.… Read more »
More on the UAE’s new reading law
As we wrote earlier this week, the first ever National Law of Reading has been issued in the United Arab Emirates, part of a ten-year plan by President Sheikh Khalifa… Read more »
Turkey arrests eleven more journalists, from an “institution of the republic”
Lately, we’ve had all too much opportunity to report on a sweep of arrests of Turkish writers and journalists, and closures of the news organizations they work for, which has… Read more »