DG Coutinho awarded CrimeFest’s 2025 bursary for a crime-fiction writer of colour
She’s just trying to bag a promotion, pay for her wedding, and navigate life as a Black woman in a white male-dominated profession.
Books on BookTok: has climate fiction made an impact?
“Ava explores humanity’s relationship with nature and climate catastrophe, blending ecological themes with dystopian messages in a way that feels both intimate and urgent.
This nutrient may help you live longer — and US Navy dolphins were the key to discovering it
Dietary supplements like fatty15 don’t have to undergo the same rigorous testing as prescription drugs, but Venn-Watson assures that “numerous safety studies and two controlled clinical trials have shown no negative side effects.”
Books in the Media: Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight
Claire Baglin’s “piercing first novel” On the Clock (Daunt), translated by Jordan Stump, examines “the toll that backbreaking, labour-intensive, low-wage work takes on those who do it,” wrote Lucy Scholes at the Telegraph.
Lorraine Kelly, Mike Gayle and LD Lapinski named ambassadors for Independent Bookshop Week 2025
In 2024, approximately 700 independent bookshops participated with the Booksellers Association, via Books Are My Bag, providing each with a kit containing bunting, posters, bookmarks, postcards and shelf strips – alongside a suite of digital assets available in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish.
New Hamnet audiobook announced as Maggie O’Farrell backlist to be republished
Actor Jessie Buckley is recording a new audiobook of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, to be released in May, and Tinder Press are republishing the author’s backlist with new jackets to mark 25 years of her publishing.
Chuck Schumer links rise in left-wing antisemitism to 2008 crisis, wokeism of ‘radical fringe’ in new book
“For the first time in decades, Jewish‑ Americans were starting to hear and be subject to stereotypes and slander, that Jews were secretly powerful and domineering, that they were racist oppressors, exerting undue influence on politics and media, with our money and privilege,” he writes.
‘Unexpressed emotions will never die’: in Signs of Damage, Diana Reid explores the depths of the unconscious
Tombe’s name resonates with the darkness of the ice house, which may have held corpses, and his presence triggers sexual jealousy within the group, though Sam, immune to his charms, notes his complete lack of self doubt and the “mocking edge” of his charisma.
The Bookseller’s Rising Stars opens for nominations in its 15th year
Tom Tivnan, The Bookseller’s managing editor and founder of the Rising Stars, said: “As we lurch headlong into 2025, the book trade is facing difficult challenges; at least one, AI, is borderline existential.