DG Coutinho awarded CrimeFest’s 2025 bursary for a crime-fiction writer of colour
Sheâs 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?
âAva explores humanityâs 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 â and US Navy dolphins were the key to discovering it
Dietary supplements like fatty15 donât have to undergo the same rigorous testing as prescription drugs, but Venn-Watson assures that ânumerous safety studies and two controlled clinical trials have shown no negative side effects.â
Books in the Media: Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight
Claire Baglinâs âpiercing first novelâ On the Clock (Daunt), translated by Jordan Stump, examines âthe toll that backbreaking, labour-intensive, low-wage work takes on those who do it,â 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 â alongside a suite of digital assets available in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish.
New Hamnet audiobook announced as Maggie OâFarrell backlist to be republished
Actor Jessie Buckley is recording a new audiobook of Maggie OâFarrellâs novel Hamnet, to be released in May, and Tinder Press are republishing the authorâs backlist with new jackets to mark 25 years of her publishing.
Chuck Schumer links rise in left-wing antisemitism to 2008 crisis, wokeism of âradical fringeâ in new book
âFor the first time in decades, Jewishâ 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,â he writes.
âUnexpressed emotions will never dieâ: in Signs of Damage, Diana Reid explores the depths of the unconscious
Tombeâs 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 âmocking edgeâ of his charisma.
The Booksellerâs Rising Stars opens for nominations in its 15th year
Tom Tivnan, The Booksellerâs managing editor and founder of the Rising Stars, said: âAs we lurch headlong into 2025, the book trade is facing difficult challenges; at least one, AI, is borderline existential.
Show Donât Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld is moving, witty and achingly real
But Sittenfeld gently reminds us that, considering the chaotic past decade, where death, catastrophe and complex political issues have dominated American lives, fear and anxiety are an entirely reasonable emotional response.
âProfile more valuable than expertise nowâ: anonymous editor weighs in on fact-checking furore
âHarnessing celebrity to sell books is nothing new, of course, but once upon a time these people lending their profile to shift copies would have been paired with a ghost writer who would do much of the actual work required.
âAn unclenching of the soulâ: Geraldine Brooksâ raw, gentle grief memoir has helped me navigate my own mourning
On Flinders Island, Brooks creates some of her own rituals of mourning: taking long walks, swimming in the ocean, savouring her interactions with local wildlife, staring at the night sky.
Spread the Word unveils 2025 London Writers Awards winners
McKenna continued: âIt can make a life and career in writing imaginable and tangible, where before it may have felt remote, nebulous and difficult to reach, giving participants permission to handle their own work with confidence and seriousness.
Chris van Tulleken, Catherine Belton and Caroline Criado-Perez shortlisted for the ÂŁ10k Unwin Award
Moreover, The Lost Rainforests of Britain (William Collins) author Guy Shrubsole was shortlisted for his "lyrical, inspiring and educational prose", as well as "the ways in which his work has shaped public understanding of land ownership, conservation and our relationship with the natural world".
‘One of the finest Scottish crime writers of his generation’: Denzil Meyrick dies aged 59
The publisher added: âDenzil was known for the skill with which he pinned to the page the reality of life on the streets of Glasgow along with the issues of the small rural communities of Scotland, a talent which caught the attention of a wide reading public across the UK and well beyond.
Books on BookTok: Ali Hazelwood leads trending titles
The latest addition to the Hunger Games series, Sunrise on the Reaping (Scholastic), by Suzanne Collins is due to be published next month and âmany readers are rereading the original trilogy and remembering why we loved it in the first placeâ, noted Suraka.
Books on Podcasts: Jojo Moyes on her latest novel, modern families and privacy
The Artist was selected as one of The Booksellerâs Debuts of 2025: Volume 1, described by fiction previewer Madeleine Feeny as a "tense psychodrama of female subversion and liberation exploring the legacy of war, the unreliability of perception and the hidden corners of art history".