An "astonishingly rare" edition of JRR Tolkien ’s The Hobbit has sold for £43,000 at auction. The book, one of only 1,500 copies printed in 1937, was discovered on a bookcase in Bristol, during a home ...

CILIP CEO Louis Coiffait-Gunn called for decision-makers to “support, not undermine, inclusive storytelling in libraries” ...

Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen and Elif Shafak have signed a letter for a "complete boycott" of Israel, until ...

Harrogate International Festivals is starting a new "meet and greet" series, launching with an event featuring author Elly ...

Community organisation Comics Youth has launched the UK’s first Young Comics Laureate role, building on the existing UK ...

Princeton University Press has announced the launch of Bollingen Recollections, which will see the redesign and republication ...

Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired “gripping” horror novel, Slasher Summer, from EL Chen. Commissioning editor Jorgie Bain ...

The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by award-winning author and academic Carla Kaplan, a “riveting new biography of ...

This week, BookTok creators selected the books they believe will be popular on the platform in the coming autumn months.

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Lee’s memoir, This Is for Everyone (Macmillan). The audiobook will be released simultaneously with the hardback and e-book on ...

Waterstones has issued a statement about BookFest 2025, which took place on Wednesday 6th August at its flagship Piccadilly ...