Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards seek 2017’s best ‘data detectives’
The Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards return for their sixth year to celebrate the world’s best data visualisations, infographics, interactives and information art.
BBC and National Poetry Day to celebrate listeners' local words
Cheeselog (a woodlouse), to geg in (to butt in) and fam (meaning a familiar form of address for a friend) are among the distinctive local words that will be immortalised in 12 specially commissioned poems for this year’s National Poetry Day.
MONOCLE launches printed weekly newspaper
Global media enterprise MONOCLE embarks on its “latest adventure in ink and paper” today with the launch of a new printed newspaper.
Norwich Crime Writing Festival announces killer line-up for 2017
Val McDermid, Anthony Horowitz and Martina Cole amongst killer line-up at Noirwich Crime Writing Festival
Polari First Book shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize was announced last night at the Polari Literary Salon in London’s Southbank Centre.
Prestigious international Cundill History Prize receives record number of submissions in its 10th anniversary year
Historians and authors Amanda Foreman, Roy Foster, Rana Mitter, and Jeffrey Simpson join Margaret MacMillan to judge McGill’s relaunched prize
2017 Forward Prizes for Poetry shortlists: delights and provocations
The shortlists for Britain’s most coveted poetry awards – the Forward Prizes for Poetry – are announced today by jury chair Andrew Marr.
Polari First Book Prize reveals 2017 Longlist
The longlist for the Polari First Book Prize was announced tonight at the Polari Literary Salon in London’s Southbank Centre.
Patrice Lawrence wins The YA Book Prize with 'Orangeboy'
Patrice Lawrence was today announced as the winner of The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize for Orangeboy, published by Hodder Children’s Books.
Published today: In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist, translated by Henning Koch, is published in hardback by Sceptre today.