The Random House Group announced the release of its first direct to digital fiction title, The Unremarkable Heart by international, multi-million copy bestselling thriller writer Karin Slaughter.  The thriller which is only available as an ebook, features exclusive extra content including the first chance to read the opening chapter of Slaughter's new book, Fallen, published in hardback in Ju...

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Britain's Best New Magazine award winner, Stylist, gave the RHCB publicity department a very warm fuzzy feeling thanks to the cover, interview and four page feature illustrated by Quentin Blake! Quentin drew the entire front cover - even down to the title lettering - and further illustrations accompanied a piece inside about the nostalgia of children's books. The online site extended their list of best children's books to include RHCB titles, Where the Wild Things Are, Dogger and Mrs Pepperpot. They also featured an image of Obama's picture book Of Thee I Sing and Louise Yates' Dog Loves Books! To read the online piece, click here.

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Saturday 21st May saw Random House Children's Books and Andersen Press launch a brand new 'Festival of Illustration' with Blackwells Oxford.It was a jam packed day of events, kicking off with the wonderful David McKee and Tony Ross who were entertaining as always and made a brilliant comedy duo! Next up was storytelling and fun with the award-winning Chris Wormell who laid...

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At a celebratory dinner on Monday 23rd May, Edmund de Waal was awarded the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto).The prize was presented by Sir Christopher Ondaatje.Praise from judges Don Paterson, Ali Smith and Sarah Waters:Don Paterson admired de Waal's use of the history of a family heirloom - a collection of delicate netsuke - 'as a device to trace the growth of the anti-Semitism that led to the horror of the holocaust. It is pitch-perfect in its haunting evocation of time and place, and never slips into sentimentalism; his book is as smooth and perfect as his own ceramic works'.'A work whose lightness, when it comes to dealin...

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The new Vintage Podcast is now available to download free from the Vintage Books website, www.vintage-podcast.co.uk , and to subscribe to through itunes.This month listen to Anne Enright on love and sex in the recession, Stella Tillyard on her move into historical fiction, the founder of BBC Afghan Woman’s Hour Zarghuna Kargar, debut novelists Kevin Barry and Shehan Karunatilaka discuss the ...

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On Friday 20th May 130 volunteers from The Random House Group in London took part in the  second Random Ramble.  Our ramblers walked seven miles each - the equivalent of the entire length of Great Britain from Land's End to John o' Groats - raising over £2,500 for the Group's nominated charity, Medical Foundation.Participants set off from their respective offices in Ealin...

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Four authors from The Random House Group have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger awards.The CWA Dagger awards celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing, and are the longest established literary awards in the UK.Within Vintage, An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas has been shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, awarded to a crime, thriller, suspense or spy fi...

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William Heinemann and Transworld dominated the Waterstones Piccadilly launch of Fiction Uncovered - a new promotion to support some of the UK's best fiction writers - yesterday, with three titles on the eight-strong list - Disputed Land by Tim Pears, Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson and The London Satyr by Robert EdricThe promotion - supported by Arts Council England and funded by the National Lotte...

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As The Random House Group's need for greater performance continues, we look to replace our desktop PCs every 4 to 5 years.  Whilst the displaced devices are past their useful RHG life, there is still good work left in them for lesser loads such as those seen within the Medical Foundation.Initially these will total some 40 in number and are being put to good use within the ...

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The Death of Lomond Friel by Sue Peebles (Chatto/Vintage) has won the £5000 First Book Award at the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2011.   The book will now go head-to-head in a public vote with the other category winners in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry to be named Scottish Book of the Year 2011 and win a further £25,000 .  Votes can be cast here The Death of Lomond Friel has already won the Saltire Scottish First Book Award.

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