Hilary Mantel and Will Self will battle it out for another literary prize six months after Mantel beat Self to the Man Booker Prize. The pair are s...

Hilary Mantel has won this year's Costa Book Award for her novel Bring Up The Bodies which the judges described as "head and shoulders" above the othe...

Critics favourite Hilary Mantel is expected to pick up another prize tonight for her best-seller, 'Bring Up The Bodies', at the Costa Book Awards. ...

With an estimated 530,000 different books released per year in the UK and America alone, which of them make it past the panels of book awards - from t...

EL James's bestselling sensation Fifty Shades Of Grey has been named one of the books of the year at a literary awards ceremony. The book, the firs...

And so, as the literary year heads into its final furlong, The Specsavers National Book Awards offers us one last chance to don a tux, sip some bubbly...

Six renowned authors from the past century have been shortlisted for a prize to recognise the best ever winner of Britain's oldest literary award. ...

Cherie Blair has stepped in to help fund the Women's Prize for Fiction - previously the Orange Prize - while it looks for new sponsors. Organisers ...

The scriptwriter for the Olympic opening ceremony is to jostle with David Walliams for a top children's comedy-writing prize. Frank Cottrell Boyce,...

Celebrated author Kate Atkinson will be awarded an MBE by the Prince of Wales today for an outstanding literary career. The award winning novelist ...

The Waterstones 11 shortlist has been announced and contains 8 women writers, including a Shakespearean actress. Rachel Joyce, whose career include...