Book Riot has ideas for what to give to the Potterhead in your life.

That Potterhead might also enjoy hearing how the recently published Scots version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sounds in a Dundee accent.

Red’s literary editor Sarra Manning has selected the best books to give this Christmas to even the pickiest of people.

The Guardian rounds up the top 10 novels about God.

Cressida Cowell has called the closure of school libraries a “social mobility time-bomb”. More than 750,000 UK schoolchildren do not own a book. Children without books are 15 times less likely to be good readers than their book-owning peers, research shows.

school library

 The Book of Bees by Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski has won the 2017 Educational Writers’ Award.

The co-founder of Freight Books is causing a bit of upset and controversy as he launches a new press while his old company goes into formal liquidation, with writers reporting royalties still unpaid.

Politicians have voted Nick Clegg’s How To Stop Brexit as the best non-fiction by a parliamentarian this year in the Parliamentary Book Awards.

Don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win a Brit Lit Podcast mug!

Advertisements
https://britlitblog.com/2017/12/06/today-in-brit-lit-news-6th-december-2017/
britlitblog.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-43
90227
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:I6Q26GRRFKLNUT4CWOM566GCBAJAH24X
<urn:uuid:b558107f-05f9-4394-9101-07322f534009>
2018-10-17T02:36:42Z
192.0.78.25
text/html
sha1:24LOWZL2Z3OBF7QJ2BYKAAQ642TFMJL7
<urn:uuid:a69ec183-391b-46b1-8f52-96861b608ca2>
https://britlitblog.com/2017/12/06/today-in-brit-lit-news-6th-december-2017/
response
<urn:uuid:7872ef03-c9a0-4fa4-b3df-5e418787e0b7>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-43
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2018
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-43-199-9.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/