February 18 2025

World Book Day 2025

World Book Day is on the 6th of March.

World Book Day will mark 30 years of literary fun in 2025.

Unesco, which promotes global education, culture and heritage, created the annual event on April 23, 1995. Since then, it has become a worldwide movement celebrating books and encouraging children to read.

When is World Book Day 2025? Date, £1 books, and fun ways to celebrate 30 years

The news article lists books that will cost just £1 during this event. Or you can look on the World Book Day website. Here’s all the books.

World Book Day 2025 falls on Thursday, March 6. Many UK schools encourage children to dress as their favourite character and bring the accompanying book.

In schools that celebrate World Book Day, children share their favourite books, discuss the stories, and explain why they chose their characters. Some schools even hold competitions for the most authentic costumes.

When is World Book Day 2025? Date, £1 books, and fun ways to celebrate 30 years
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January 22 2025

Joseph Kugelmass: We Can’t Save Neil Gaiman; And he doesn’t deserve it.

Neil Gaiman has now been accused on record, by multiple women, of serious acts of sexual misconduct. Instead of creating the right conditions for a legal proceeding against Gaiman, however, these allegations have merely torpedoed his ersatz second career as the presiding genius of media based on his writing. Only a few months ago, Gaiman’s graphic novel Sandman was a popular live-action series on Netflix and the hottest new ensemble performance on Audible.com for fans of cerebral fantasy. Those projects have now been shuttered. Good Omens, Gaiman’s so-so television series on Amazon Prime, is dead as well. One of Gaiman’s two publishers has dropped him. His name is on everyone’s lips. He’ll never get clear of this.

Joseph Kugelmass: We Can’t Save Neil Gaiman; And he doesn’t deserve it.
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January 22 2025

Author Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations (BBC)

Sandman author Neil Gaiman has denied allegations of sexual misconduct, saying he has “never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever”.

The 64-year-old was accused on Monday of sexual misconduct by eight women, including four who had previously spoken out.

Author Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations, BBC News
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October 4 2023

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Shortlist announced

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced its shortlist of six titles in contention for this year’s award. The books on this year’s list highlight the funniest novels of the past twelve months, which best evoke the Wodehouse spirit of witty characters and perfectly-timed comic phrases.

The award is the UK’s longest running prize for comic fiction and previous winners have included bestselling novelists Christopher Brookmyre, Nina Stibbe, Paul Torday and Helen Fielding. Last year’s winner was Percival Everett for his bold, provocative novel The Trees.

Bob Mortimer Book Shortlisted for Award, Bruce Dessau, beyondthejoke.co.uk

The shortlisted comic fiction books are:

  • Darling by India Knight
  • Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
  • Mother Hens by Sophie McCartney
  • Murder at Crime Manor by Fergus Craig
  • Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors by Aravind Jayan
  • The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

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What is the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize?

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the United Kingdom’s first literary award for comic literature. Established in 2000 and named in honour of P. G. Wodehouse, past winners include Paul Torday in 2007 with Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Marina Lewycka with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 2005 and Jasper Fforde for The Well of Lost Plots in 2004. Gary Shteyngart was the first American winner in 2011.

The Prize is sponsored and organized by Bollinger, a producer of sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France, and Everyman Library, a book imprint that is a division of Random House.

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, Wikipedia

An interesting fact about the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse

In 2018, no one won the prize because the 62 nominated books just were not funny enough. [source]

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September 16 2023

I am in Print launches £1,000 writing prize with Canelo

Entering a writing competition is a fantastic way to put your work in front of a publisher. We are therefore hugely excited to be working with Canelo, one of the largest independent digitally focused publishers in Europe and one of the largest UK fiction publishers by volume, to find the best, as yet unpublished, manuscripts.

Manuscripts entered into the I Am In Print Novel Award must be complete, written in English and be between 70,000 and 100,000 words. The award is open to writers globally and novels written for an adult audience in the following genres are welcome: Action thriller, Cosy mystery, Crime, Historical adventure, Horror, Psychological thriller, Romance, and Saga.

https://www.iaminprint.co.uk/novel-award-2023/

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September 16 2023

Inclusive Books for Children launches website

Inclusive Books for Children (IBC), a new charity, has launched a website that aims to make “sourcing high quality inclusive children’s books a seamless experience”, supporting parents and caregivers as they buy books. The site contains over 700 freely available expert book reviews and recommendations, and can be
navigated to find books “featuring protagonists with specific characteristics, browse booklists curated by
theme or types of representation and much more.”

Inclusive Books for Children launches website
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September 12 2023

Blue Peter reveals a new Book Badge, designed by Sir Quentin Blake (New Blue Peter Book Club)

Blue Peter has unveiled a new Book badge, designed by one of the UK’s best-known illustrators, Sir Quentin Blake.

The Blue Peter Book badge will be awarded to children aged 5-15 who send in their thoughts on a book, draw a character or scene and share which other books and writers they love.

Blue Peter reveals a new Book Badge, designed by Sir Quentin Blake, BBC Media Centre

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