Olga Tokarczuk has become the first Polish author to scoop the Man Booker International Prize for Flights, “brilliantly translated” by (my friend!!) Jennifer Croft and published by independent press Fitzcarraldo Editions. The Guardian Books Podcast discusses the prize.

The Guardian rounds up the top 10 books about cricket.

iNews has picked up on Big Green Books’ fun project to have strangers buy books for each other.

Cosmo UK reports has a piece by 13 LGBTQ+ people on the books and films that mean the most to them.

Pavilion Books imprint Pitkin is claiming a publishing first with Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding Book to be in stores from 7th June less than three weeks after the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle.

Refinery 29 has a list of brilliant books to take to the beach this summer, but they have a record of usually just copy-pasting from their American articles, so worth double checking those books are actually available in the UK!

A star-studded cast including singer Alicia Keys, actress Ashley Judd and Hamilton star Phillipa Soo are lined up to narrate the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls audiobook.

Vintage has paid tribute to Pulitzer Prize and Man Booker International Prize-winning author Philip Roth as “one the greatest American novelists of the 20th century” following his death at the age of 85.

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh is an extraordinary otherworldly debut, says The Guardian.