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The Society of Authors hands out prizes: Sebastian Faulks presented £60,500 in prize money to twenty-one writers on behalf of…

What will you  read this summer? Check out the Independent’s 50 best summer reads

Our June speaker, Lucy Scher of The Script Factory, gave us some great insights into screenwriting that works – here…

Not only do we get the delicious treats of poems on the tube, I’ve just heard that the tube drivers…

Anthony Browne, the illustrator of over 40 books, was named the children’s laureate this week. He said: “Picture books are…

Perhaps, it’s obvious, but when you are writing a book, you must think about your readers.  Ask yourself who will…

Our July speaker will be the lovely Marie Phillips author of  bestseller Gods Behaving Badly. Check out her blog: The Woman Who…

Blood, murder and a dead Russian poet: 14 suspects are rounded up for the Theakstons crime novel of the year award.…

   Kate Atkinson (author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum) tells Hay Festival she’d rather not be a published…

Sceptre will encourage readers to try David Benioff’s novel City of Thieves by offering them the chance to swap it…