The second book in the critically acclaimed Chastity Riley series

The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, have revealed the regional shortlists for the 2019 Independent Bookshop of the Year, sponsored by Gardners Books.

From the smallest bookshops to the largest retailers, the book trade in the UK and Ireland is getting ready to provide every child and young person redeeming a World Book Day book token with a book of their own – and getting the nation to Share a Story on 7th March.

Rathbones Folio Prize and Rathbone Investment Management have announced a significant expansion of their partnership, which secures the future of the Rathbones Folio Prize, Mentorships and Sessions until at least 2023.

James Runcie, Holly Bourne, Lucy Worsely, Dian Pelangi, Sarah Morgan, Nicola Cornick and Dr Michèle Mendelssohn lead festival line-up.

As part of an international-facing line-up, prominent European authors Stefan Hertmans, Simone Buchholz and Antoine Laurain also announced as special guests.

Announcement comes following confirmation of a 4th series of The Grantchester Mysteries TV adaptation (Grantchester) by ITV. Winners of the 2019 CAMEO Awards will be announced at an exclusive event on Monday 11 March 2019, kick starting the festival’s week of events

The Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff has today been announced as the winner of the world’s leading history prize (US$75,000) for her genre-bending account of the life and world of the Polish-born British writer Joseph Conrad.

From family life at the margins of society to a mermaid in Georgian London, from an inspiring celebration of food and literature that grew out of anorexia to an epic voyage down the Yukon River – four outstanding writers have today been named on the shortlist for The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with the University of Warwick

Three exceptional American historians – writing passionate, innovative works of history about new frontiers at times when the world was undergoing dramatic change – have been named as finalists for the world’s leading history prize, run by McGill University.