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The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera…
The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and…
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The British Library has reported on its Gender Pay Gap for the sixth year of what is now an annual cycle of reporting. As an employer with over 250 staff, the Library is required by law to carry out Gender Pay reporting under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap) Regulations 2017.
The archive of the English poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton is heading to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Fenton’s body of work traces the political upheavals of our time, including the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the suppression of…
Arthur Ransome fans will gather in the Lake District this summer for a marathon reading of Swallowdale, one of the adventures in the Swallows and the Amazons series.
The event will take place over the June 24/25 weekend at the Windermere Jetty Museum and devotees of the children’s story of all…
The Raab Collection has unveiled two powerful and revealing Ernest Hemingway letters that touch upon writing, life, filming The Old Man and the Sea, fishing, travel, and, perhaps most importantly, death and the afterlife, including his near-death experience in two airplane crashes. They also shed…
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, London rare bookseller Peter Harrington has announced a landmark offering of copies of each of the four Folios as well as a first collected edition of Shakespeare’s Poems. This is a rare occasion for a single collector to…
John Speed's market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman sold for £33,750 ($41,580) at Chiswick Auctions. Speed’s A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World bound together with The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had come for sale by family…
A new exhibition at Charles Dickens’s London home - A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog - looks at how the author used fog as a regular and imposing motif in his works. As well as a major inspiration to Dickens, it was also a personal health hazard, intensifying the asthma from…
Arion Press's new King Artist in Residency is a new book arts initiative in honor of the Grabhorn Institute’s late board chair Kevin King. The King Residency will bring visual artists to Arion’s historic facility to create and conceive book and print projects alongside the Press’s team of expert…
Swann Galleries' April 13 Printed & Manuscript Americana auction features an exciting an array of Civil War material represented by several diaries, including an officer on a desert expedition undertaken by the 1st California Cavalry; a Virginia Military Institute cadet pressed into active…
A cookery book whose renowned author coined the term ‘chef’ and laid the blueprint for modern restaurant dining is set to serve up a tasty price at auction.
Published in 1871, The Household Cookery Book by famous French cuisinier Urbain Dubois goes under the hammer with Richard Winterton…
