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Among publishers, HarperCollins’ 4th Estate leads in this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize longlist, with three of the 12 titles announced today. Twelve Titles Include Poetry, Novels, and Stories Today (January 21), Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize has announced its 2021 longlist of 12 titles. They include nine novels, two poetry collections, and one short story collection. And reading that, you’ll immediately recall that one of the distinctions of this awards program is that it’s ope...

  Not the least of our losses in this plague year was one of our greatest poets, Derek Mahon. Washing Up (Gallery Press) is a glorious late harvest - vigorous, funny, angry, blithe - beautifully produced, like all Gallery editions, and including, appropriately, a lovely tribute to another luminary of the dead poets society, Ciaran Carson. Mahons last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a ju...

Normal text size Very large text size What a year. Who would have thought this time last year that 2020 would bring a pandemic? And what did it mean for books? Well, publishing schedules went a bit haywire as titles were postponed, trumpeted or slipped under the radar. It was possibly the worst time to be a debut author, with launches taking on a new identity. Writers festivals and bookshop events were cancelled or migrated online. But didnt we readers respond well? We took to virtual events in...