Polari, the award-winning LGBT literary salon, returns with a new prize for 2019 that will recognise both debut authors and established writers whose work explores the LGBT experience.

The Marsh Agency welcomed clients, publishers and scouts from Tokyo to New York, London to Los Angeles to its offices at the legendary John Murray building on Albemarle Street tonight – celebrating 25 years of the agency at the forefront of international rights.

The twice Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor will chair the jury for the 2019 Cundill History Prize, Antonia Maioni, Dean of Arts at McGill University, will announce at the London Book Fair today. 

Through the inspirational stories of 50 famous and under-celebrated women from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, South Asian girls will have a chance to dream about lives for themselves that radically differ from the limited narratives and stereotypes written for them by their culture, wider society and the mainstream media.

The Duchess of Cornwall and European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake will lead celebrations today, 7th of March, as the reading for pleasure charity asks the nation to Share a Story on World Book Day.

As World Book Day Director calls on parents and carers everywhere to put reading together at the heart of their World Book Day activities – and share a story with children and young people for 10 minutes today, and every day

MONOCLE's round-the-clock global radio station, Monocle 24, is collaborating with the French fashion house Chanel on a new series of interviews. First up: Karl Lagerfeld.

Twelve outstanding shortlistees are announced today in the third annual Creativity Across Media: Entertainment and Originality Awards (CAMEOs).

A haunting and brutal thriller from a new master in ice-cold arctic crime, exploring the clash between Inuit folklore and contemporary Arctic life