Shema Tariq, Yemisi Bokinni and Ammad Butt are among the six writers selected to take part in the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards development programme, which includes a £2,000 bursary.

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist, revealed today, features 25 "relevant, vibrant and essential" unpublished stories selected from a record-breaking 7,920 entries.

Moon + Bird is set to publish five-minute bedtime stories and meditation treasure from former Buddhist monk, astrophysicist and mindfulness teacher Dr Mark Westmoquette.

Nearly a third of French authors say relations with their publishers have worsened over the past three years, and more than half are in favour of creating a mediation commission to help solve disputes ...

The shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been revealed by way of a treasure-hunt video.

The Stockholm-based Grand Agency has hired Elisabet Brännström as literary agent, where she joins from her position as ...

Author Raymond Antrobus and illustrator Rebecca Cobb are among those featured in the 12th annual shortlist for Oscar’s Book ...

Second-hand books, new prizes and reading for pleasure were on the agenda at last week’s three-day Paris Book Festival, which ...

This week in fiction, Katie Kitamura returns with her fifth novel and Beth O'Leary's latest receives a nod in the Times.

Hutchinson Heinemann has acquired Sir Michael Palin’s account of his recent trip to Venezuela. Nigel Wilcockson, associate ...

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, an acclaimed pioneer of modern-day Latin American literature, has died aged 89.

Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, is set to publish four new science-fiction novels from Arthur C Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky.