Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, is unveiled for the first time today alongside a one-day exhibition of some of the artist’s rarely seen works in Soho, London. 

Serialised exclusively in the Daily Mail today (Why we MUST quit the EU, by Cameron's guru), The Sunday Times bestseller and one of the bestselling political books of 2015 – More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First by Steve Hilton – is being published for the first time in paperback in a new edition with more world-changing ideas.

Got a tricky question about an A Level subject? Hay Festival (26 May – 5 June) is here to help this half-term. Hay Levels Live is a new initiative offering Sixth Form students the chance to quiz distinguished speakers live at Hay Festival 2016 and online.

Debut novel The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley has tonight been crowned Book of the Year at the newly revamped 2016 British Book Industry Awards, beating off stiff competition from both literary heavyweights and commercial blockbusters including major international sensations Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins and Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.

On Wednesday 4th May, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Naomi Klein delivered the 2016 Edward W. Said London lecture at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre: Let Them Drown – The Violence of Othering in a Warming World

To celebrate the forthcoming worldwide publication of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, the Estate of Francis Bacon is staging a one-day-only exhibition: Francis Bacon: Six Studies in Soho.

(Image: Francis Bacon, Triptych, 1987. Oil on canvas. © The Estate of Francis Bacon / DACS London 2016. All rights reserved) 

Keep Me Posted by Lisa Beazley - a fresh and funny debut about the struggles of keeping in touch, keeping it real and keeping it together - is published in the UK today by Text Publishing.

Consultant neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan was awarded the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize 2016 for It’s All in Your Head, her journey through the world of psychosomatic illness, published by Vintage.

In this 400th anniversary year, Hay Festival: Talking About Shakespeare (www.talkingaboutshakespeare.org) is a new digital platform launched this weekend. Short films from the world’s leading actors and academics, playwrights and directors, poets and novelists are available through the channel, giving insight into Shakespeare’s contemporary resonance and his understanding of our human hearts. 

On Saturday 23rd April, UNESCO International Day of the Book and Copyright Day, Shakespeare’s birthday and also the 400th anniversary of his death, 187,500 copies of 15 specially printed World Book Night titles will be given by a network of volunteer reading enthusiasts and institutions around the UK focussing on reaching the 36% of the UK population who don’t read for pleasure.  Since the inaugural World Book Night in 2011, an extraordinary group of 56,000 volunteers has been created, giving books away to over 2.25 million people.