Quick Reads scrapped for 2019 after sponsor search fails

The adult literacy campaign Quick Reads is wrapping up after 12 years due to lack of funding, The Bookseller can reveal. Read more

Malala among UK academics' top 20 books that changed the world

Titles by Malala Yousafzai, Anne Frank and Reni Eddo-Lodge have been voted on to a list of the Top 20 "most influential books in history written by women"... Read more

Indies offered chance to win Pullman visit

Independent bookshops are being offered the chance to win a visit from Philip Pullman during Independent Bookshop Week in June. Read more

Royal biographer takes on All the Queen's Corgis

Royal biographer Penny Junor is publishing a book about all the dogs the Queen has owned in her lifetime, called All the Queen's Corgis.... Read more
Introvert's 'misadventures in extroverting' to Transworld

Transworld has acquired a non-fiction book "about an introvert who tries to live as an extrovert for a year". Read more
Constable to publish memoir of dry-stone waller

Constable has acquired the memoir of a dry-stone waller, publishing in May. Read more
Orion to create Anarchy with Wattpad's Megan DeVos

Orion Fiction has snapped up the Anarchy series by Wattpad author Megan DeVos. Read more
Dennis Quaid to narrate The President is Missing audiobook

American actor Dennis Quaid, who played Bill Clinton in the 2010 TV movie "The Special Relationship", has been cast to narrate the audiobook of The President is... Read more
Harvill Secker wins 'remarkable' debut after 'intense' five-way auction

Harvill Secker has won debut novelist Rosie Price’s literary novel, What Red Was, in an "intense" five-way auction.... Read more

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Opinion

A Quick end?

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Philip Jones blogs on adult illiteracy and the sad demise of the Quick Reads initiative. Read more
Getting the reading fix

Baroness Gail Rebuck Chair at Penguin Random House
Facebook: Publishing Friend and Foe

Sophie Rochester Founder and c.e.o. at Yodomo
Breaking the habit

Rebecca Souster and Kezia Bayard-White Co-founders at Break The Habit Press
An open letter to the London-centric publishing industry

Northern Fiction Alliance