Wakefield Council has backed plans to expand the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, the world’s biggest book-gifting programme, to eight more areas in the city.

Shastri Akella has won the 2025 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize for The Border Ghosts, described by 2025 judge ...

Educational e-publishing company Jolly Learning has "made a small number of redundancies" following a review. Chief executive ...

Waterstones is set to open two new bookshops in John Lewis stores, following the success of the branch currently operating in John Lewis’ flagship Oxford Street store.

Caroline Ferguson will become chief executive of Bath Festivals which runs the Bath Literature Festival. The arts charity ...

The Polari Prize will continue with this year’s prize but organisers have promised “a full review of the prize processes” ...

This week, two memoirs illuminate different aspects of what it means to be human and to connect with each other, while in ...

BBC Two’s Between the Covers with Sara Cox has been cancelled, as the BBC seeks to "prioritise high-impact content that ...

Indian content studio Applause Entertainment has acquired its first global fiction screen rights to five of Jeffrey Archer’s ...