Gesa Stedman rounds up the news, from defunct as well as new literary prizes to delivery crises, slow successes in the North to the huge impact of TikTok on publishing. Read more
Prizes
Mixed Book News: Summer, Autumn, Winter
Gesa Stedman looks at recent and not quite so recent prize winners, Frankfurt book fair debates, special issues on disability and LGTBQI+ respectively, published by The Bookseller, and wonders where climate change has disappeared to – again. Read more
Summer Break!
Dear readers, We hope this last post before the break finds you healthy and safe. We look forward to a wee break and shall be back with new posts in due time. Two more recommendations before we go: August is Women in Translation Month, founded six years ago by blogger […] Read more
Book News for May and June 2020
Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
Book News – The Latest Developments from the Literary Field
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most important news from the literary field from in-house audio production to more or less Read more
Racism and the Booker Prize: Bernadine Evaristo is not “the other author”!
While it was already doubtful whether Bernadine Evaristo as the first black woman ever to win The Booker Prize Read more
Bernardine Evaristo wins the 2019 Booker Prize
Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize! Yesterday, on the evening of 14th October 2019, the Booker Prize judges announced that they awarded the prize to both Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood. My first reaction was an outburst of joy (and a little dance in front of my phone) – […] Read more
Fire and Fury – The (British) Literary Field in 2018
Gesa Stedman takes a look back at trends and developments which dominated the literary field in the UK in 2018. While non-fiction was on the up, fiction was less important Read more
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival took place in Harrogate from 19-22 July 2018. Lynn Parkinson reports from North Yorkshire for the Literary Field Kaleidoscope. Read more
Jhalak Prize for Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I No Longer Talk to White People about Race
Gesa Stedman explains one of the most recent attempts to diversify the literary field in the UK, the Jhalak Prize, which was awarded for the second time on 15 March 2018. Read more
