The poet Christopher Reid has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year for a tribute to his late wife.
In a surprise decision, his collection A Scattering was voted the winning book by the panel of judges.
Colm Tóibín, the Irish author, had been widely tipped [...]
Master crime novelist Robert B Parker dies. The creator of the wisecracking Boston private eye Spenser died on Monday, aged 77.
Bestselling American crime novelist Robert B Parker, creator of the wisecracking Boston private eye Spenser, died on Monday, aged 77.
Author of more than 60 books, Parker passed away at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, [...]
Philip Gross wins TS Eliot poetry prize for The Water Table Collection of poems on the Severn estuary lands top award after beating tough opposition, including two former winners
A university professor’s detailed and lyrical meditations on the ever-changing waters of the Severn estuary tonight won him the UK’s most lucrative poetry prize against tough [...]
I couldn’t resist bringing this story to my readers it is all about a glamour model who has struck upon a STARKERS plan to get publicity for her first book.
The blonde stunner is set to appear in an online video to read out the first chapter of her book – completely NAKED.
Author Tracy Williams [...]
As any budding author who has tried will know, it’s not easy to get published. And that’s an understatement.
It just got a bit easier in the digital realm, however, as Amazon has extended its Kindle self-publishing facility from a US only affair to a worldwide one.
Amazon’s Digital Text Platform allows those with the rights [...]
Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, has hit out at critics of creative writing courses and those who claim that students cannot be taught to become authors. Currently over 50 universities offer MAs in creative writing and that excluding the many hundreds of other courses available at institutions of higher education.
With ‘names’ teaching [...]
The Derwent Poetry Festival launches nine new titles from Templar, including the four winning pamphlets from the 2009 Pamphlet Prizes, by David Morley, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Paul Maddern and Dawn Wood. There are readings from the annual anthology poets and first collections launched by Maggie O’Dwyer and Katrina Naomi.
Nigel McLouglin, the new Editor [...]
Author Dan Brown is a friendly, normal guy — not the type you’d expect to have created the dark world of “The Da Vinci Code.” The book, published in 2003, has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, and the 2006 movie starring Tom Hanks grossed over $758 million.
It also generated enormous controversy: Catholic [...]
