The knives are out for Meghan Markle as she announces her forthcoming children’s book
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 »
Turkish writer Elif Shafak speaks against Turkish censorship
Turkish writers and academics are being persecuted for their work at an alarming rate, thanks to the current turmoil in the country. One writer, Elif Shafak, is speaking out against… Read more »
Thousands of Indonesians have opened their own libraries
Promoting reading in Indonesia has long been a struggle—so citizens have taken it upon themselves to make books accessible to children. Indonesia is vast, with “17,000 islands and a geography that almost… Read more »
Who will step in for Man? Previous winners speculate on the Booker Prize’s future
As we reported yesterday, The Booker Prize parted ways with Man Group this week; the hedge fund that financially backed the U.K.’s most famous literary prize for the last 18… Read more »
British publishers looking to capture post-World Cup fandom
Melville House is no stranger to crashing books. For anyone who doesn’t have their publishing glossary handy: to “crash” a book means to put it on an accelerated writing and production schedule,… Read more »
Say it isn’t so: video games are influencing kids to read books
That’s a headline I never expected to write with any sincerity — but according to Alison Flood and Sian Cain at the Guardian, the popular video game Minecraft has become a sort of… Read more »
It’s… the Melville House Post-London Book Fair Debrief Extravaganza! (For short, the MHP-LBFDE!)
Have you all recovered, then? That tickly cough cleared up? Circa one thousand emails flagged “to action” in the ol’ inbox? Finally got some vitamins after a steady diet of… Read more »
“Flakensteins” understand Shelley’s classic… but does the Sun?
British tabloid the Sun has spun a piece about students’ reactions to Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein into an example of “thin-skinned, liberal foot-stomping,” to use Sian Cain’s phrase in the Guardian. The… Read more »
Milo Yiannopoulos’s lawsuit against his publisher goes down in flames
Let’s check-in on everyone’s favourite bigoted right-wing jerk, Milo Yiannopoulos. The former senior editor at alt-right site Breitbart News, Yiannopoulos gained notoriety for his offensive stances on… well, practically everything, including feminism, homosexuality,… Read more »
This year, there’ll be a Man Booker Prize for best Man Booker Prize-winner
All that glitters is gold. The folks behind the Man Booker Prize, the UK’s leading prize for novels, has announced that this year they’ll be awarding a “Golden” Man Booker, a one-time-only… Read more »