If you enjoy audio books and you're interested in history, here is the first in a series of recommended books, based on what I have listened to in the past several years. All of these books are, in my ...

The British Library has signed a deal for Google to scan and digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books published between 1700 and 1870, and make them available free of charge online. The scanned ...

The 42 finalists for The British Book Awards 2026 Library of the Year have been revealed, spanning the UK and Ireland.

Across the UK and Ireland, 76 bookshops have been selected as regional and country finalists for The British Book Awards 2026 Independent Bookshop of the Year, the largest cohort in the prize’s ...

The British Book Awards, also known as The Nibbies, will be held at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House in London on the 11th of May 2026. And for the new year, they will be expanding their categories to ...

Edited by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton; Boris Johnson; David Richards and Julian Lindley-French Request reprint permissions here. Three recent books on contemporary British politics and foreign ...

The 2024 British Book Awards, administered by The Bookseller magazine, announced its winners across various industry categories at a ceremony held on May 13 in London that drew 1,000 people.

LONDON CALLING NORTH POLE (208 pp.)—H. J. Giskes—British Book Centre ($3.50). The decisive moment for Operation North Pole came at 2 p.m. on March 15, 1942. At that moment H. M. G. Lauwers, a Dutch ...

HONORABLE ESTATE—Vera Brittain—Macmillan ($2.50). In her best-selling autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain tried to “describe and assess the fate of a young generation ignorantly and ...

Google Books partners with the British Library to digitize 250,000 books from between 1700 and 1870. Readers will soon be able to access all of the knowledge without the mustiness of old books. Amanda ...