Awakening: The Art of Halo 4, which includes never before seen concept art for the new instalment of the Halo franchise, has been acquired by Titan Books. The book, which will be released late 2012, provides a detailed look at the art created specifically for Halo 4, including weapons, vehicles, characters and environments.

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE Almost a third of British adults have said that they are likely to buy a e-book in the next six months. The percentage of adults who have purchased an e-book has increased threefold since February 2011.

Faber has ordered a 100 000 copy print run of P D Jamess Death Comes to Pemberley. Jamess book has already sold 300 000 copies across all formats, including print and digitall…

The shortlist for the 2012 Kibble Literary Awards have been announced. The awards recognise outstanding female literary achievements two categories.

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE A second Harry Potter theme park will be opening in Japan. The theme park, located at Universal Studios in Osaka, will be modelled on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida.

HarperCollins Australia has secured the rights to three new Australian erotic fiction novels. The author, Indigo Bloome, lives in regional Australia and had been writing her first novel, Destined to Play, for nearly a year before she approached the publishers.

Sir Terry Pratchett has been nominated for this years Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for the fourth time in a row. Pratchett has been nominated for his novel, Snuff.

For the third week in a row, E L Jamess Fifty Shades of Grey was the bestselling book the in the UK.…

Patrick McGuinnesss novel, The Last Hundred Days, has been shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award 2012. Five other titles are in the running, including The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant.

Publishing house Gollancz has acquired a parody of Suzanne Collinss bestselling YA series The Hunger Games, written by John Bailey Owen and Aaron Geary. The book, titled The Hunger but Mainly Death Games, follows the story of Bratniss Everclean and her adventures of getting slightly hungry and probably dying.