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.

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 also runs the Bath Children’s Literature Festival, Bath Music Festival and ...

The Polari Prize will continue with this year’s prize but organisers have promised “a full review of the prize processes” following the withdrawal of many authors and a judge from the longlist.

This week, two memoirs illuminate different aspects of what it means to be human and to connect with each other, while in fiction two Granta novels swept critics away.

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

Indian content studio Applause Entertainment has acquired its first global fiction screen rights to five of Jeffrey Archer’s novels – Fourth Estate, First Among Equals, The Eleventh Commandment, Sons ...

Cassell has acquired Felix White’s “beautifully written” take on the meaning of football, Whatever Will Be, Will Be: A Matter of Life and Football. Commissioning editor Trevor Davies acquired World ...

An "astonishingly rare" edition of JRR Tolkien ’s The Hobbit has sold for £43,000 at auction. The book, one of only 1,500 copies printed in 1937, was discovered on a bookcase in Bristol, during a home ...

CILIP CEO Louis Coiffait-Gunn called for decision-makers to “support, not undermine, inclusive storytelling in libraries” after Minister for Communities of Northern Ireland Gordon Lyons said a drag ...