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In comparison with the suddenly-embattled National Book Awards in the US, the biggest prize in Britain, the Booker Prize, has recently been revamped and, after years of being attacked for… Read more »

A “handful of female players control the fate of the British book industry,” writes Vanessa Thorpe in a report for The Observer. Women such as Caroline Michel, Amanda Ridout and… Read more »

“One of Africa’s most prominent literary icons, Chinua Achebe, has rejected a national honors award from his government in Nigeria in protest at the ‘dangerous’ state of the country,” according… Read more »

Despite a British government claim that “it has rescued the public library movement from years of decline and underfunding,” a new study finds that the British library system “has lost… Read more »

Australian author—and former British TV star—Clive James says “I fired myself from the small screen” to try to “find a path back to normality.” As an Associated Press wire story… Read more »