The winner of the tenth Branford Boase Award is The Traitor Game, written by Bridget Collins and edited by Emma Matthewson from the publishers Bloomsbury. The announcement was made to a packed audience on the 9th July 2009 at an

BBC Worldwide will report a fall in profits this week as the corporation begins to look again at the ownership of its moneymaking arm.

Publication of new books by writers such as Nick Hornby, Sebastian Faulks and William Trevor have been brought forward to give them a chance of reaching the best-seller lists before Brown's new novel hits the shelves on September 15.

Publishing a successful literary magazine like Granta, whose latest issue appeared last week, is the literary equivalent of the Indian rope trick. No one really knows how it's done, and those who claim to pull it off inevitably have the

They are the hottest authors in publishing, delivering works of murder, mystery, ribald humour and passionate love, and they all have one thing in common: they are long dead.