Climate titles dominate discussion at Frankfurt

Non-fiction has reigned supreme at an upbeat Frankfurt Book Fair, as agents reported a surge of interest in titles on wellbeing and personal development. Read more

Foley strikes new two-book deal with HarperCollins

Lucy Foley has signed a new two-book deal with HarperCollins, signalling their ambition to cement Foley as the "most exciting new voice in the crime thriller market"... Read more

Audio dominates FutureBook shortlists

Audio dominates the shortlists for this year’s prestigious FutureBook Awards, with seven podcasts and seven audiobooks shortlisted, along with start-ups NoisyBook and DeepZen. Read more

Pan Mac buys leadership manual from ex-Navy SEAL

Pan Macmillan non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie has signed a new leadership manual, Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual, by American ex-Navy SEAL Jocko Willink.... Read more
Oneworld acquires inside story of musical family the Kanneh-Masons

Oneworld has acquired the memoir of the woman who raised seven extraordinarily talented musical children, the Kanneh-Masons, exploring parenting, music education and the boundless potential of... Read more
Centenarian tale wins £20k PRH/Daily Mail First Novel Award

A novel featuring a 110-year-old character has won the £20,000 Daily Mail and Penguin Random House First Novel Competition, now in its fourth year.... Read more
Australian online retailers drop Catch and Kill following legal threats

Two Australian online book retailers have suspended sales of Ronan Farrow’s investigation into #MeToo, following legal threats from one of the book’s subjects. ... Read more
Sudden death of publisher Hendrik teNeues mourned by his family company

The TeNeues Media Group is mourning the death of publisher Hendrik teNeues, who passed away in Munich last week at the age of 67. Read more
Chingonyi’s migration memoir to Picador

Picador has bought a memoir examining loss, family and migration by Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi after a five-way auction. Read more

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Opinion

Nature of change

By Helen Pearson

Chief magazine editor at Nature

Last month, news firms with a combined audience of more than a billion united to put climate change on the agenda. Here’s why...... Read more
A colourful approach: designing Elton John’s Me

James Annal Art Director at Pan Macmillan
Talking stock

Philip Jones Editor at The Bookseller
What is it about bookshops….?

Sarah Dennis Owner at Mostly Books
Movers and makers

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Book Previews

FutureBook

What is the futurebook?

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

FutureBook is now a general publishing conference, does that mean publishers have got digital and innovation cracked? Read more
What the publishing world looks like from an outsider's perspective

Jasper H Joffe Publisher at Joffe Books
How big is the pre-order market?

Philip Jones Editor at The Bookseller
The power of the printed word

Stuart Rising
Should a c.e.o. write code?

Karen Christensen C.e.o. and publisher at Berkshire Publishing