Hay Festival Educational Trust and the Welsh Government have partnered to offer unique educational opportunities for both primary and secondary school pupils at this year’s Hay Festival Wales.

Marion Coutts, artist and author of Wellcome Book Prize 2015 winning memoir The Iceberg, has designed a special Wellcome Book Prize edition Books Are My Bag tote to mark this year’s prize

Supersaurs, the exciting new children’s imprint and epic six-part global adventure series from Bonnier Zaffre, is making an entrance at London Book Fair with a life-size Titan Tyrant.  Standing 3 metres tall and measuring 7.5 metres in length, the giant supersaurs sculpture will dominate the Book Fair’s main entrance proving unmissable as publishers, authors and members of the public descend on Olympia this week.

Caitlin Moran, Sam Mendes, Maxine Peake, Michael Palin, Simon Schama, Germaine Greer, Salman Rushdie, Gordon Brown, Yanis Varoufakis, Mervyn King, Monty Don, Tom Holland and Jeanette Winterson headline; plus comedy from Sarah Millican, Marcus Brigstocke, Dara Ó Briain, and Sara Pascoe; and music from Suzanne Vega, Billy Bragg, Laura Marling, K T Tunstall, Turin Brakes, and Baaba Maal.

Leading African publisher Cassava Republic Press launches at Free Word Centre in London tonight introducing the finest new voices from the continent.

The first book in a new series about an orphan boy who discovers he is part of a secret army that protects the world from a race of shadowy monsters.

Audible the world’s leading provider of spoken audio entertainment, has announced its support of London Book & Screen Week, the capital’s seven day city-wide celebration of books and the films, TV programmes and virtual worlds they inspire, taking place 11 – 17 April, 2016.

The new novel from the #1 bestselling author of the This Man Trilogy and One Night Trilogy. Published by Orion Books, September 2016

London Book & Screen Week has revealed a blockbuster pair of final event additions to the 2016 programme, with a Shakespeare special led by Man Booker winning novelist Howard Jacobson and renowned theatre actor Henry Goodman, plus a one-off Cityread London event with novelist and playright Gillian Slovo, writer Hardeep Singh Koli, social anthropologist Dr Lex Henry and author Ben Judah.

Maestra, the sensational new novel from L.S.Hilton will top the hardback fiction charts this weekend after a blockbuster week of sales.