The Society of Authors has said it would be a "great shame" if the BBC goes ahead with its planned cuts to short story coverage on BBC Radio 4 and pleaded with the broadcaster to reconsider.
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Google has launched a branded e-reader, the first device to be integrated with the Google e-books platform.
The internet giant teamed up with manufacturer iriver to produce the iriver Story HD, which goes on sale at Target on Sunday (17th July) priced $139.99, the same r.r.p. as the Kindle.
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The London Magazine has launched a competition for readers to nominate their favourite bookshop, highlighting indies including Daunts.
As part of the publication's The Great Little Shop Awards, this month the magazine is asking readers to nominate their favourite bookshop. Entrants, who can vote online, will be in with the chance to win a set of 50 classic hardbacks from Everyman's Library, selected by m.d. David Campbell.
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Titles on waves, malaria and spiders’ webs have been longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
The 13 titles also include titles by Matt Ridley, Tim Flanney and Alex Bellos.
Chair of judges, author Monica Ali, said: “The vast range and sheer number of popular science books clearly demonstrates the growing importance of science in all parts our world and a wider recognition of that importance.
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Stephen Fry, Victoria Wood and Christopher Eccleston are to star in an adaptation of Mary Norton's classic children's novel The Borrowers this Christmas.
The 90-minute drama, penned by “Merlin" writer Ben Vanstone and produced by Working Title Television, will be directed by “This Is England"'s Tom Harper for BBC1.
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Colum McCann has won the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin (Bloomsbury), beating 161 other entries.
The €100,000 prize is the largest awarded to a single novel published in English.
Oneworld has acquired a title it is billing the first-ever exposé of the 1976 oil crisis.
UK and Commonwealth rights to The Oil Kings by Andrew Scott Cooper were acquired by publisher Juliet Mabey from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein for an undisclosed sum.
The title examines how an oil crisis was secretly engineered by American economist Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld and President Ford. Cooper gained access to previously classified documents and interviewed former top US and Iranian officials for the book.
Two titles picked for BBC2’s "Culture Show" special on debut novelists, broadcast in March, have made it to the shortlist for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011.
Ned Beauman’s Boxer Beetle (Sceptre), also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, will go up against Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (Bloomsbury) for the £10,000 gong. The list is completed by Anjali Joseph’s Saraswati Park (Fourth Estate).
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Aminatta Forna has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 Best Book for her novel The Memory of Love (Bloomsbury).
The judges described the novel as "a bold, deeply moving and accomplished novel which confirms her place among the most talented writers in literature today". Forna took home £10,000 for the prize, which took place on 21st May.
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S J Bolton, Mo Hayder and Susan Hill are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library, as the CWA reveals its Dagger shortlists.
Jason Goodwin, Philip Kerr and R J Ellory are also in the running for the award, sponsored by the Random House Group, which is awarded to an author for a body of work. The prize, worth £1,500, also donates £300 to a participating library readers’ group and is nominated and judged by librarians.
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John Blake is to offer an unofficial guide to the witticisms of actor, TV presenter, writer, comedian and noted Twitter-phile Stephen Fry.
The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen Fry, to be published in October, will be “a collection of the master’s bon mots”, according to the publisher.
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