British writer Mick Herron, best known for his Slough House series beginning with Slow Horses, has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger award for lifetime contribution to crime writing.... Read more »
This year’s TS Eliot prize for poetry has been awarded to Michigan-born Peter Gizzi for Fierce Elegy, a collection that draws on the poet’s experience of losing his brother. Photograph: Penguin Chair... 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 »
Book News: The Philosopher Fish wins oddest book title prize
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Ferdia Lennon has been awarded the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, which means a pig will be named after his winning novel, Glorious Exploits. The prize, set up in... Read more »
Jon Ransom has taken home a Polari prize for the second year running, with his second novel The Gallopers winning 2024’s overall prize for books that “push the boundaries of LGBTQ fiction.”... Read more »
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn Nov 21 2024 Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most... Read more »
Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize Nov 12 2024 Orbital by Samantha Harvey, the only British writer shortlisted this year, has won the 2024 Booker prize, the UK’s most... Read more »
Orbital by Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize 2024 Nov 12 2024 Orbital by Samantha Harvey has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. The winner was announced by Chair... Read more »