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News: Ten books carefully chosen out of the thousands published each year are soon to become the titles everyone is talking about on TV’s best known literary discussion forum, when the series returns to More4 on Sunday 29 January, with repeat episodes on Channel Four.

Funded by Specsavers, the ten-part series sees a celebrity panel that includes Meera Syal, Dave Spikey and Laila Rouass, critiquing a new title each week. For the first time ever, viewers are invited to interact with the show, reading along with them and sending in their own reviews.

News: The winner of the Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2011 is The Times columnist Caitlin Moran for her irreverent take on modern feminism, How To Be A Woman. She was the overall winner of the public vote which comprised winners of all eleven categories from the Galaxy National Book Awards.

News: Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace named as Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011. Solace, the debut novel of Longford arts journalist, playwright and former festival curator, Belinda McKeon, has been voted the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year for 2011.

The public were asked to vote for their favourite title from the list of ten category winners announced at the recent Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011 and Solace, which was named as Sunday Independent Best Irish Newcomer of the Year at the awards, topped the poll.

News: We invite the UK book industry to make their nominations for the 2012 British Sports Book Awards. This is the 10th Anniversary of the awards and will be heavily promoted within the media. The surrounding sports book retail campaign will run in the weeks leading up to Father’s Day on 17th June and it is anticipated that key retailers will support the promotion of the shortlisted & winning titles.

News: Film director Neil Jordan, Irish Times journalist Belinda McKeon, celebrity chef Rachel Allen, cycling star Nicholas Roche and popular fiction author Sheila O’ Flanagan were named as winners at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011 this evening.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award by President Michael D. Higgins for his contribution to Irish literature over the past six decades.

News: The winners of the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011, a celebration of the very finest British authors and publishing, were revealed at a star-studded awards ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental, Knightsbridge, London. The winners in each category were determined by the 750-strong Academy of the National Book Awards.

News: The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011 shortlists feature Irish authors of international renown including Sebastian Barry, Neil Jordan, Derek Landy, Benjamin Black and Alan Glynn, whose previous novel was adapted to the acclaimed Hollywood movie ‘Limitless’, alongside a host of newcomers including cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley, comedian Des Bishop, radio presenter Joe Duffy, award-winning jockey Tony McCoy, scriptwriter/director John Butler and Irish rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan.

News: Shortlists announced for the Galaxy® National Book Awards.

Carol Ann Duffy, Julian Barnes, Andrea Levy, Alan Hollinghurst, Anthony Horowitz, Terry Pratchett, Joanna Trollope and Claire Tomalin are just some of the shortlisted authors for this year’s ‘Oscars of the publishing industry’, the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011, hosted by Dara O Briain.

News: The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011 winners revealed

London, Friday 7th October, 2011-Cactus TV and ITV3, in partnership with the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), are pleased to announce the winners of the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011, a celebration of all things criminal in literature, TV and film.

News: The 2011 Awards Ceremony has switched venue and date to take advantage of the TV production qualities of a superb new venue becoming available. The 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards will take place on FRIDAY 4th NOVEMBER at the MANDARIN ORIENTAL HOTEL, Knightsbridge.