On a Monday evening in mid-November, dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Toronto’s Park Hyatt Hotel, where the Giller prize gala was taking place. The following night, in London, the Baillie Gifford nonfiction... Read more »
The book criticizing the health insurance industry whose title resembles words etched on to shell casings found at the scene of the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week has... Read more »
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Sarah Jessica Parker is on the judging panel of the 2025 Booker prize, it has been announced today. Though on the face of it, the American actor might seem a surprising choice... Read more »
The Society of Authors (SoA) is calling on celebrities and the publishing industry to properly acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly those aimed at children. In a statement published on Monday,... Read more »
“I wouldn’t have given him that magic hat if I’d known he would be this clingy.” Source link Read more »
A short story based on the real-life deportation of Chinese seafarers from the UK after the second world war has won this year’s 4thWrite prize. Fleeting Marrow by Yan F Zhang spans... Read more »
Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet who emerged as one of the leading voices of the 1960s Black Arts movement, has died aged 81. Giovanni died on Monday following her third cancer... Read more »
