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M John Harrison has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Gollancz), a genre-blurring tale of broken life in Brexit Britain hailed by judges as a “literary masterpiece”.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been crowned the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun (HarperCollins).

The new arrangement with the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg already comprises almost 60 reports on the Knowledge Unlatched platform. The post Germany’s Knowledge Unlatched Partners with European Investment Bank appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The new arrangement with the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg already comprises almost 60 reports on the Knowledge Unlatched platform. The post Germany’s Knowledge Unlatched Partners with European Investment Bank appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Based in PEN's long-running program of writing mentorship for prison inmates, the new prize recognizes four pairs of mentors and mentees . The post PEN America Names First Recipients of L’Engle-Rahman Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Based in PEN's long-running program of writing mentorship for prison inmates, the new prize recognizes four pairs of mentors and mentees . The post PEN America Names First Recipients of L’Engle-Rahman Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The 11 Canadian publisher-members of the Association of University Presses are participating in University Press Week with title highlights and online events. The post Canadian University Publishers Observe University Press Week appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

While books about the outgoing US president have been bestsellers for the last four years, Trump might be a step too far for some publishersFact-checkers are quaking in their boots amid reports that Donald Trump could be being “courted for a new tome on his time in the White House”. The Murdoch-owned tabloid the New…

According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017Two years after the stark revelation that only 1% of British children’s books featured a main character who was black, Asian or minority ethnic, the proportion has increased to 5%, according to…

Pantomime misanthropy is tempered with bursts of sweetness in the secondhand bookseller’s latest dispatches from WigtownThere’s a moment in the first season of the short-lived but influential sitcom Black Books in which an elderly customer appears with a box of attractive old editions of classics to sell to Dylan Moran’s crosspatch bookseller Bernard. Barely looking…