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Bookselling Ireland, the committee of Booksellers Association members representing bookshops from across Ireland, together with Publishing Ireland, have announced plans for Irish Book Week 2023.
As submissions ramp up following the summer break, publishers and agents report seeing speculative fiction, alternative histories and “genre-bending”, stories, with “a paranormal renaissance” anticipated by one.
Ben O’Donnell has succeeded Andrea Reece as FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival’s Director of the Children’s and Young People’s programme
Authors Frederick Forsyth, Mark Billingham, Claire Mackintosh and Ruth Ware are among a raft of crime authors confirmed as part of the programme for the first ever Chiltern Kills crime writing festival in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
The Bridport Prize has announced Kit de Waal will become its honorary patron.
Michelle Robinson will become BookTrust writer in residence.
The Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is “minded not to direct a local inquiry” into library provision in Calderdale.
Ilkley Literature Festival, taking place between 6th and 22nd October 2023, has announced that Bryan Washington and C Pam Zhang will be in attendance as part of this year’s programme.
The judges have been revealed of the Sunday Times Young Writer Award for 2023.
"Blue Peter" has announced a new reading badge and book club.