Indie publishers pick their top tips for autumn

The Bookseller invited a selection of indies to choose their top tips of the season. Read more

T&F revenues nudge up, as Informa prepares to cut jobs in Covid action plan

Taylor & Francis saw revenues nudge up slightly by 1.9% year on year in the six months to 20th June 2020. Read more

Waterstones has announced it has made 16 head office roles redundant, including four publisher-facing staff in its books team. Read more

Wax, Schama and Carney to feature at PFD virtual Frankfurt event

Ruby Wax, Simon Schama and former governor of Bank of England Mark Carney among authors who will be appearing at Peters Fraser + Dunlop's virtual Frankfurt Book... Read more
Manchester Children's Book Festival hosts book giveaway

Manchester Children's Book Festival has given out almost 2,000 books to children living in disadvantaged areas of the city to support their reading during the pandemic. ... Read more
HarperCollins Traineeship reopens for BAME candidates

The HarperCollins Traineeship, set up to help address underrepresentation in publishing, is now open for applications from BAME candidates. Read more
PA condemns 'unfair' tax on audiobooks as fourth #LoveAudio campaign rolled out

The Publishers Association ramping up campaign for "unfair" VAT to be zero-rated on audiobooks as it launches its fourth #LoveAudio campaign. ... Read more
SoA condemns author arrests in Belarus protests

The Society of Authors has condemned the arrest of three author members of Belarus PEN, reported to have been detained amid protests in Minsk demanding resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko.... Read more
Guess How Much I Love You author Sam McBratney dies

Sam McBratney, author of Guess How Much I Love You, has died aged 77. Read more

Safiya Sinclair | 'There wasn’t much space for me as a woman to grow and thrive'

Safiya Sinclair’s début poetry collection is about to be published in the UK for the first time but it already comes garlanded with praise and... Read more
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | 'Stories have such power you cannot imagine'

The First Woman, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's powerful feminist novel about a headstrong young woman’s coming-of-age in 1970s Uganda, has had a long and fraught path... Read more
Douglas Stuart | 'Representation of the working-class is essential for diversity in literature'

Scottish author Douglas Stuart talks to us about his Booker Prize 2020-shortlisted début novel, Shuggie Bain. Read more
Stevie Davis | 'I’ve drawn on every place and era that I have inhabited for my fiction'

Award-winning Swansea writer Stevie Davies reveals how Wales permeates her work as she publishes a domestic noir novel with a difference Read more