Macmillan Prize 2012

This award was established by Macmillan Children's Books in order to stimulate new work from young illustrators in art schools and to help them start their professional lives. This year, alongside the picture book category (incorporating The Lara Jones Award) we are introducing a separate digital category

Bloomsbury acquires urban fantasy series by Oxford undergraduate Samantha Shannon

Bloomsbury has pre-empted world English rights in The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon in a major three book deal and will publish the first of the seven book series in print and ebook globally on 12th September 2013, after the author graduates from Oxford University. Bloomsbury Editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle moved swiftly to acquire the series from David Godwin at DGA the week of the London Book Fair, ahead of meetings with other publishers

Azrieli Foundation to launch film series companion to Holocaust memoirs

The Azrieli Foundation, a Canadian philanthropic organization has produced a number of film shorts to complement its series of memoirs by Holocaust survivors

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize shortlist

The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize has been announced

Benjamin Franklin Award™ finalists 2012

Finalists for the Benjamin Franklin Awards, honoring "excellence in publishing" and sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association, have been announced, with three finalists in each of 54 categories. Winners will be celebrated at the Benjamin Franklin Awards dinner on Monday, June 4, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City

2012 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography winner

The 2012 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography is awarded to Frances Wilson for How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay. The £5,000 Prize will be presented by Flora Fraser on Thursday 14 June, at the Society of Authors' annual awards party at The Army and Navy Club in Pall Mall. Other prizes administered by the Society will be introduced by Lindsey Davis and presented by Claire Tomalin. The prize is generously sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros in affectionate memory of Elizabeth Longford, the acclaimed biographer

The Man Booker Prizes Weekly Roundup - 4 May 2012

The latest news about Man Booker Prize writers and judges - 4 May 2012

We want to buy your books! Internet Archive Letter to Publishers

Thank you for your willingness to invest in the future of publishing and readership. Libraries and publishers have a lot in common: we connect writers with readers which promotes literacy, scholarship, and citizenship. We want to buy more digital books from you.....

Wild Things author Maurice Sendak dies at 83

Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children's book Where the Wild Things Are, has died aged 83

2012 Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist

The shortlist for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced by Ben Okri OBE, the new Vice President of the Prize. The Chair of judges, author and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Bernardine Evaristo MBE, has described the shortlist as "truly diverse fiction from a truly diverse continent." The Caine Prize, Africa's leading literary award, is now in its thirteenth year. Involved from the beginning, Ben Okri, the internationally acclaimed Nigerian writer was announced as the Vice President of the Prize last week (26 April 2012). Ellah Allfrey OBE, deputy Editor of Granta magazine is the new Deputy Chair. The 2012 shortlist comprises:

Rotimi Babatunde (Nigeria) 'Bombay's Republic' from 'Mirabilia Review' Vol. 3.9 (Lagos, 2011)

Billy Kahora (Kenya) 'Urban Zoning' from 'McSweeney's' Vol. 37 (San Francisco, 2011)

Stanley Kenani (Malawi) 'Love on Trial' from 'For Honour and Other Stories' published by eKhaya/Random House Struik (Cape Town, 2011)

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo (Zimbabwe) 'La Salle de Départ' from 'Prick of the Spindle' Vol. 4.2 (New Orleans, June, 2010)

Constance Myburgh (South Africa) 'Hunter Emmanuel' from 'Jungle Jim' Issue 6, (Cape Town, 2011)