Alexander the Great Biography Wins the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize
Edmund Richardson’s Alexander the Great biography won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize, the first win for a book about ancient history.
Jade Jones’s Darlene Gives a Minor Character From Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye a Novel of Her Own
The cover of Jade Jones’s debut offers a glimpse inside Darlene’s classroom. Here’s who Darlene was in The Bluest Eye and why Jones imagined her becoming a teacher.
Is Netflix’s Guarding Stars Based on a Book? Meet Katherine Center’s The Bodyguard
Netflix’s Guarding Stars adapts Katherine Center’s The Bodyguard. Here’s what the book is about and how the film moves the story from Texas to Montana.
Rebecca Yarros’s Peculiar Stars: What to Know About Her Standalone Survival Romance
A cyclone strands a newly engaged woman with her fiancé’s cousin in Rebecca Yarros’s standalone romance. Here’s when it comes out, what editions are listed and where to read an excerpt.
Kit Frick Reveals The Night of the Party, a Suspense Novel About Revenge and a Missing Guest
A horror novelist becomes a suspect when a former classmate vanishes in Kit Frick’s The Night of the Party, out May 4, 2027 from Atria Books.
Erica Bauermeister Reveals Sharp as Ink, a Novel About a Writer Who Grew Up Around Books
Erica Bauermeister’s new novel follows a Melville scholar’s daughter who leaves academia to write. Here’s what the cover reveal and prologue tell us about Sharp as Ink, due June 1, 2027.
The Voices of the Dead: A 1941 Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey
When a roof collapse exposes a grave in wartime Wales, Josephine Tey takes on a decades-old case. Nicola Upson’s 12th series entry begins with the real rescue of the National Gallery’s paintings.
Philippe Jaenada Wins the 2026 Prix Goncourt With a Novel About an Unsolved Paris Murder
Philippe Jaenada’s Goncourt-winning novel follows an archival trail back to Louise Cansot, a Montparnasse artists’ model killed in Paris in 1949.
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