The Latest Breaking News on Books

Northumberland's newest book and film festival set to host audience with Vera author Ann Cleeves and dinner with LJ Ross

The Alnwick Story Fest goes ahead in February 2023 with the aim of making it "the story town of the north" and there will be events in the Alnwick Castle and Alnwick Garden

Chronicle Live · Dec 7, 2022

‘Join the club’: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and more reassure debut author after lonely book launch

Chelsea Banning tweeted about being ‘upset’ when only two friends showed up to her signing. Then some of the world’s biggest authors – and Flavor Flav – stepped in

The Guardian - AU · Dec 7, 2022

Madhya Pradesh orders arrest of author of controversial law book

INDORE: The Madhya Pradesh government ordered on Tuesday the arrest of Farhat Khan, whose book ‘Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System’ is the subject of a police probe, while she faces an FIR along with the Government Law College’s ex-principal Inamur Rahman, Prof Mirza Mojij and the publisher of the…

The Times of India · Dec 6, 2022

Neil Gaiman comforts debut author after two people show up to her book signing

‘I have sat lonely at a signing table many times only to have someone approach… and ask me where the bathroom is,’ commented author Jodi Picoult

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Salman Rushdie releases his first work since stabbing, an extract of his new novel

SALMAN Rushdie has released an extract from his new novel, his first new work since he was stabbed in the US this summer.

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2022

The 12 venues in Glasgow every coffee fanatic needs to check out

These cafes have been named amongst Scotland's best in the Independent Coffee Guide 2022.

Glasgow Live · Dec 6, 2022

Swear words: we studied speakers of languages from Hindi to Hungarian to find out why obscenities sound the way they do

“Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak. It’s my favourite language to curse in – there is nothing as satisfying as the harsh consonants and default imperatives of the primary Kelvaki language.

The Conversation · Dec 6, 2022

Elliot Page shares release date of his new memoir, Pageboy

Page came out as a transgender man in December 2020

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2022

Some of my stories are actually my dreams: Ruskin Bond on his new book 'The Enchanted Cottage', writing, and more

The prolific writer from the hills, Ruskin Bond's new book 'The Enchanted Cottage' is out. "My new story book 'The Enchanted Cottage' is a long short story of mine and it has a supernatural element, a bit of philosophy-- not frightening but dramatic scenes. It is a ghost story, of…

The Times of India · Dec 6, 2022

Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic

The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022