As part of its spring programming marking the centenary of the birth of the poet Dylan Thomas, BBC Radio 3 is set to air a…

Last summer brought news from Comic-Con, fittingly enough, that Chuck Palahniuk is planning to release a sequel to his widely adored 1996 debut novel Fight…

When they inevitably make a Social Network-style movie about the rise of Amazon to full-blown Skynet omniscience, the equivalent of that film’s infamous ‘a million…

So it’s a new year. Time to shake off the bad habits i.e. ordering staff, family, friends to buy books to help them up the…

In news that is initially startling, then kind of begins to make sense the more you think about it, until you think about it for…

Actress Gillian Anderson has revealed that she is working on a series of sci-fi novels to be published by Simon & Schuster. A Vision of Fire,…

Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey has won this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2013 collection, Parallax – her fifth volume, published, like each of…

In a fascinating post over at Vocativ, author Chris Faraone outlines what he calls ‘Hitler’s big comeback’ in the age of e-readers, suggesting that a…

Having proven himself a reliable font of publishing news throughout the latter half of 2013 – whether pushing through the release of his Autobiography on…

Frankly, it can be hard enough finding stuff to blog about the rest of the year*, so if you think BookMachine is going to continue…

Helen Fielding’s third Bridget Jones novel – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – has returned to the top of the UK hardback fiction charts…

Morrissey’s Autobiography – the singer’s self-explanatory memoir, released with some degree of fanfare by Penguin Classics in the UK in October – has already met…

Though foundational indie rock heroes Pixies have seemingly been doing everything in their power of late to alienate long-term fans – parting ways with iconic,…

As part of Book Week Scotland – which ran throughout last week from 25 November to 1 December – the Scottish Book Trust has revealed…