Irish publisher @salmonpoetry toasts new home in pub after crowdfunding campaign to save its bookshop and arts centre raised more than €60,000: theguardian.com/books/article/…

This has just gone up on the Guardian front, and is an accurate account (including the bit about the google alert on my name; thankful I have it). Correct link here theguardian.com/books/article/…

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize theguardian.com/books/article/…

‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’ theguardian.com/books/article/…

David Olusoga tells Hay festival audience that the UK is the one country left in the British empire — "It’s like we’ve had a party and everyone else left and we haven’t noticed. It infects our view of ourselves" theguardian.com/books/article/…

"the ick" has been added to the Cambridge Dictionary Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/article/…

Percival Everett, Hisham Matar, Rachel Kushner, Tommy Orange and Richard Powers are among those on the 2024 Booker longlist Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/article/…

More than £120,000 has been raised to help repair a Liverpool library that suffered severe fire damage after being targeted by rioters on Saturday night Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/article/…

Two months after Baillie Gifford sponsorships of nine literary festivals ended, I spoke to festival organisers and campaign groups about alternative funding sources and paths forward Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/article/…

Search begins for new writers of colour as 4thWrite prize opens for entries theguardian.com/books/article/…

More than 180 UK public libraries closed or handed to volunteers since 2016, data shows theguardian.com/books/article/…

Neil Gaiman screen adaptations halted after allegations of sexual misconduct, for The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Arundhati Roy to publish first memoir theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

spoke to Japan’s #1 bestseller Uketsu – who is anonymous, wears a papier-mache mask and distorts his voice – about his novel Strange Pictures, a mystery horror centred on a series of eerie drawings, which has now been translated into English by Jim Rion theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

A new Ian McEwan novel, What We Can Know, is coming September - set nearly 100 years in the future in a Britain that has become an archipelago after its lowlands are submerged by rising tides. McEwan describes it as “science fiction without the science”: theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

💌 spoke to three very lovely couples who got engaged in bookshops or met at book club 💌 theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

Trump's niece, Mary, says he's the "only person I’ve ever met who’s never evolved" theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…