Opine Books Opine Books
Academy Book Prize Atlantic Books additional amazing year authors’ collective posted Penguin Random House BIBF Globe Children David Godwin Associates


Formara joins print and paper advocacy group Two Sides

Formara joins print and paper advocacy group Two Sides

By joining Two Sides, Formara has access to a library of co-brandable communications tools, consumer research, industry-leading information, sustainability advice and events.


Asako Yuzuki’s Butter tops the chart in the last week of the year

Asako Yuzuki’s Butter tops the chart in the last week of the year

In a sign of things to come in January, Pinch of Nom: All in One by Kay and Kate Allinson (Bluebird) and Bored of Lunch Six Ingredients Slow Cooker by Nathan Anthony (Ebury Press) are both starting to rise up the NFHB chart while Tim Spector’s Food for Life Cookbook (Jonathan Cape) both return to the top 20.


Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

His criticism, plays, biographies, memoirs and television scripts stand alongside celebrated novels like The British Museum is Falling Down, the Booker-shortlisted Small World and Nice Work, Therapy, Deaf Sentence and A Man of Parts, and show the range of a writer who was fascinated by everything the written word could achieve.”


Kazuo Ishiguro, Jacqueline Wilson and Alan Hollinghurst recognised in King Charles New Year’s Honours list

Kazuo Ishiguro, Jacqueline Wilson and Alan Hollinghurst recognised in King Charles New Year’s Honours list

And it makes me even more determined to keep telling stories that draw attention to the persecution and oppression endured by queer people in the past and contrast this with how much better things are in the present, in order to celebrate the progress we’ve made as a society.


Shop the 14 winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2024: Top books

Shop the 14 winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2024: Top books

“Romance queen Emily Henry takes home her fourth consecutive GCA with ‘Funny Story,’ an instructive modern parable about a heartbroken librarian who attempts an extremely tricky maneuver: hooking up with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancĂ©e’s ex.


Julia Child’s France, pig slaughter in Portugal and a culinary detective: 5 delicious food writing classics

Julia Child’s France, pig slaughter in Portugal and a culinary detective: 5 delicious food writing classics

My Life in France (2005), co-written with journalist Alex Prud’homme, tells the story of “a crucial period of transformation” in which she found her “true calling” and started writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle.


Our most-anticipated books for 2025, according to two avid readers

Our most-anticipated books for 2025, according to two avid readers

From her childhood growing up in a Florida commune run by a tyrannical female guru, to her journey out of the South and inside the L.A. casting rooms that would eventually drop her into the lush but brutal landscapes of “Survivor,” Shallow shows readers what it took to build herself into the ultimate survivor—for better, and more often, for worse.


Meet the 74-year-old ‘night watchman’ who’s truly the last of his kind: A ‘cultural marvel’

Meet the 74-year-old ‘night watchman’ who’s truly the last of his kind: A ‘cultural marvel’

He watched his dad work, learning how to blow the horn correctly (so it always created the same distinctive tone), and in some cases, greeting visitors like King Gustaf VI Adolf, who “couldn’t believe that a night watchman still existed somewhere within his country,” Stein writes.


These are the 30 best books of 2024

These are the 30 best books of 2024

Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books), $29 The “Caucasia” author’s darkly comic tale about a struggling biracial novelist on the brink of making it in Hollywood — while she and her young family housesit for an old classmate who is already a top TV writer — is a quick but thought-provoking read.


The British Book Awards 2025 opens for entries marking 35th year

The British Book Awards 2025 opens for entries marking 35th year

Now run by The Bookseller, previous winners have included Michelle Obama, Salman Rushdie, Davina McCall, Marcus Rashford, Marian Keyes, GT Karber and Sally Rooney.


The 11 best books we read in November 2024, ranked and reviewed

The 11 best books we read in November 2024, ranked and reviewed

About the book: “Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon” explores how the once-dominant lingerie brand’s over-reliance on a narrow, sexually charged image and failure to adapt to changing cultural and consumer values led to its decline.


Exclusive | Simon & Schuster staffers slam ‘Scrooge’-like owner KKR for canceling Christmas party: ‘They are being cheap’

Exclusive | Simon & Schuster staffers slam ‘Scrooge’-like owner KKR for canceling Christmas party: ‘They are being cheap’

The disappointment for the rank and file follows last year’s party being called off after S&S top brass pointed to a ritzy Manhattan bash that was being planned for this past April to celebrate the publisher’s 100th birthday, the insider told The Post.