Literary Ledger

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Rebecca Yarros’ Big Announcement… Wasn’t Book Four Back in March, Rebecca Yarros announced that she was writing a fourth book in her Empyrean series, and everyone has been waiting patiently for the announcement, the announcement that was finally rele

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) TikTok Joins the National Year of Reading TikTok is now an official partner of the National Year of Reading. This is both surprising and… not surprising. While you could argue that social media is one of the biggest contenders for taking up children’

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Behind the Book Market During The Bookseller’s Marketing and Publicity Conference on 29th June, we were informed that the UK consumer book market is set to grow modestly in value this year, despite a decline in print sales volumes. This is largely du

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Sense and Sensibility Trailer Release Nobody panic, but the Sense and Sensibility trailer has just dropped. I will always and forever appreciate period drama adaptations (unless it’s the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, in that case,

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Your Fault: London Released Your Fault: London (the second film in the My Fault series) was released this week and I did indeed get to watch it. Now, is the premise a bit strange? A young woman, Noah, moves from America to London with her mother and

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Hot Girls Read… and Trademark Popular Slogans?” BookTok creator and small business owner, Allie Mitrovich (known online as @allieroseco), recently found herself at the centre of a scandal after making the ill-advised decision to trademark the phrase

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Silenced at the Festival: The Meta–Wynn-Williams Legal Battle I’ll be honest, I don't feel particularly inspired by the stories this week. You can always tell when you have to dig and pry for something, anything, and even then what you find feels a b

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) What’s Next for the Off Campus TV Series? The Off Campus TV shows have done very well, with 36 million views. The first season was based on the first book in Elle Kennedy’s series, The Deal, starring Ella Bright as Hannah Wells and Belmont Carmeli as

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Libraries for Primaries: Expanding Reading Access in UK Schools The National Literacy Trust is working to encourage more children to read for pleasure and address the worrying decline in reading among young people. As part of this, they are inviting

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Boys of Tommen Cast Announcement: Expectations vs Reality Amazon Prime has announced the first cast members for The Boys of Tommen, an adaptation of Chloe Walsh’s book series, which gained popularity on TikTok and was originally published back in 201

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Harry Potter Renewed for Season Two Already Let’s start with the fun news! Yesterday it was announced that Harry Potter has already been renewed for its second season. It’s going to be done by overlapping production schedules. Once season one has wra

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Charlie Redmayne’s Next Move Surprising news has emerged that Charlie Redmayne, former CEO of HarperCollins for 12 years, is now the new CEO of Vinci Books, where he has also taken a stake in the company. This is particularly interesting given that h

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced This is a really exciting one, especially as four out of the six novelists are debuts, and four of the six are also published by independent presses. It’s a great achievement all round, and it’s lovely to

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Walter Scott Prize Shortlist Announced Five authors are currently in the running for the prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which carries a prize of £25,000. In a notable first for the award’s seventeen-year history, this year’s s

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. This week may be a quieter one, with no earth-shattering headlines or major developments to unpack, but I won’t leave you empty-handed. Let’s start with the loudest story of them all. I) Paramount Enters Publishing Paramount (yes, the major multinationa

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Harlequin Goes AI: Romance Meets Animation I suppose some big publishers aren’t resisting the AI trend, they’re joining it, likely not wanting to miss out. Harlequin Enterprises (a division of HarperCollins) is a global publisher based in Toronto, Ca

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) HBO’s Harry Potter Teaser Trailer – My Initial Reactions The Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone teaser trailer dropped yesterday, and there’s already a lot of thoughts and discourse around it. First of all, whatever you think of it, in some s

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) AI Has Landed on Bookstore Shelves (Sort Of) It’s officially happened: an AI-written book slipped through the cracks and made it onto UK shelves… before being pulled and cancelled in the US. The book in question is Shy Girl by Mia Ballard, which wa

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Grammarly Faces Lawsuit Over AI “Expert Review” Feature I think we’re all very familiar with Grammarly. It’s what people used before AI really took off. You could use the normal version (free), which fixed basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and se

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) World Book Day Yesterday was World Book Day, an event that’s been celebrated since 1998. It’s run by the charity World Book Day, which highlights that only one in three children read for fun. They point out that reading is “the biggest indicator that