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Lords urged to make 'positive intervention' in decline of libraries Libraries body CILIP has urged peers to intervene in the declining library service ahead of a debate in the House of Lords today on libraries and other arts services.

Hollie McNish's poetic motherhood memoir wins Ted Hughes Award Writer, performance poet and YouTube star Hollie McNish has won 2016's £5,000 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

Authors offered $5k to join Amazon's Prime Reading Amazon US is offering authors $5,000 upfront in lieu of royalties to incorporate their books into its unlimited reading programme for Prime members.

Sorrow as last episode of BBC Radio 4's Midweek airs After 33 years on the air, broadcaster Libby Purves presented her last "Midweek" show on BBC Radio 4 yesterday.

Agent Robyn Drury turns publisher with Ebury Agent Robyn Drury is to join Ebury Press' non-fiction department as commissioning editor next month.

Puffin signs Darwin picture book after it raised £49k on Kickstarter Puffin is to publish a picture book edition of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, retold by qualified molecular biologist Sabina Radeva, after the book raised more than £49,000 through a Kickstarter campaign.

Bob Dylan finally to accept Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend Bob Dylan will formally accept the Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend, following months of speculation over whether this would happen.

Loose makes first buys for Yale UP Julian Loose, who joined Yale University Press as editorial director for trade and academic books in July last year, has signed a book of “irresistibly brilliant” essays from Golden Hill author Francis Spufford.

Best Scandi crime revealed in 2017 Petrona Award shortlist Six crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been shortlisted for the 2017 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.

Fitzcarraldo signs 'angry novel for our angry times' Fitzcarraldo Editions is to publish Moving Kings, a "propulsive, incendiary" novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, by American novelist Joshua Cohen.

TV rights to Sometimes I Lie bought for six figures Legendary Entertainment has acquired the TV rights to Alice Feeney's debut thriller Sometimes I Lie (HQ), in a six-figure deal.

Ebury to publish River Cafe 30 Ruth Rogers is writing a new River Cafe cookbook to celebrate 30 years since London-based Italian restaurant The River Cafe first opened in 1987, publishing with Ebury Press in October.