Every ten years, Granta magazine names their 20 best British novelists under 40, and it’s always an influential list – Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Zadie Smith are among the ...

The nine authors on the 2022 Political Fiction list are all first time Orwell Prize nominees, in the fourth year of The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. As chair of judges Adam Roberts says, ‘What ...

There were so many incredible books this year. I’ve stuck to poetry: my favourite collection of 2023 was Andrew Wynn Owen’s Infinite in Finite for its combination of technical adeptness and emotional ...

Now in its 12th year, the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding rewards and celebrates ground-breaking works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the ...

From the publisher: A collection of poems both old and new, spanning a career of ground-breaking writing. Dearly gave us Atwood’s first new poetry collection in over a decade; Paper Boat not only ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

During the Covid lockdown of 2020, artist, poet and passionate environmental advocate Daphne Warburg Astor founded Hazel Press, a publisher of small books of prose and poetry based at her ...

From the publisher: 'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the ...

From the publisher: Translated by Terry KeefeA captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and André, a retired ...

In her debut novel Scaffolding (Chatto) Lauren Elkin – ‘The Susan Sontag of her generation’, according to Deborah Levy – presents two couples occupying the… ...

Our Author of the Month for March is the Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov, whose satirical works lampooning the post-Soviet landscape have never seemed more relevant, beginning with Death and the ...

Our booklists represent our personal selection of books we’re excited about, drawn from every corner of the shop. Not all the titles featured here will be new releases – they’re a reflection of our ...