We’ve gathered everything you need to know about recent campaigns, policy changes and enquiries.

Before I start reviewing this book, I’d like to tell you a short story about our local landscape. In the 1800s, pushed from their homes by the Improvement practices that estates were bringing…

In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…

Sign the petition - Save Newham Libraries - Stop the Proposed 50% Budget Cuts! Newham Libraries are a lifeline for our community. But the Council is thinking of slashing our library budget by 50%. T...

YouTube video by Schools History Project

YouTube video by BeBold History Network

It's the most wonderful list of the year: bookier than the Booker! More indie than your fave band! It's 75% indie publishers, 30% non-fiction, 25% translation, 20% poetry & 100% Burley Fisher.  So say...

Author: Isol Translator: Lawrence Schimel  Publisher: Enchanted Lion Hardback Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025 So says… This picture book brings together imagination, craft, storytelling and belon...

SHE IS HERE will hit the shelves in exactly 8 weeks! I'm lining up events for early next year. Meanwhile, you can request a galley or pre-order from your favourite bookseller...

The beautiful blend that can come of mingling domesticity and the fantastic is having a moment right now, as exemplified by the genre of cozy fantasy, but as we would expect, contemporary writers aren...

3rd December 6.30pm for 7pm Start In this special event, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Ursula K Le Guin’s son, literary executor and head of the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation, discusses his work with his mother...

3rd December 6.30pm for 7pm Start In this special event, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Ursula K Le Guin’s son, literary executor and head of the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation, discusses his work with his mother...

YouTube video by National Literacy Trust

**There is no such thing as a safe word** In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in t...