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Indies express fears ahead of autumn crush

Independent publishers have voiced their concerns about the “unstoppable juggernaut" of titles anticipated in September and the need to recuperate earnings after lockdown... Read more

Tina Turner writes 'guide to life' for HarperCollins

Singer Tina Turner has written a guide to life using Buddhist principles, to be published by HarperCollins. Read more
HarperCollins' annual global revenue falls 4.4%

HarperCollins global revenues fell 4.4% in the financial year ending 30th June, including a 3% decline in the fourth quarter, according to figures from parent... Read more
Fourth Estate signs PRH editor's 'dazzling' debut for six figures

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Headline bags Barr's 'ambitious' Middle East history in six-way auction

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MCB flies in for Morayo's fairy fiction series

Macmillan Children's Books has won a multi-publisher auction for a young fiction series by debut author Lola Morayo. Read more
Movie animal trainer Tottman pens series for Sphere

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Opinion

Lockdown diaries: the marketing executive

Hamza Jahanzeb Marketing executive at Icon Books

I usually don’t travel back to my hometown in Lancashire unless it's to visit family and friends - and that isn’t often, as I regularly catch up with them on their... Read more
Reading across the generations

Lachlan Brown Founder of Best By The Numbers
Lockdown diaries: the librarian

Zoey Dixon Librarian at Lambeth Libraries
Lockdown diaries: the book club founder

Melissa Cummings-Quarry Co-founder of Black Girls Book Club
Ignore, focus or avoid? How authors are tackling COVID-19

Gillian Harvey author

Author Interviews

Daisy Johnson | 'I loved the idea of things, trauma or memory, passing down through the body"

Daisy Johnson’s latest novel revolves around an intense sibling relationship and the horrors that lie within Read more
Robin Stevens | 'They have been in my head every day, but it feels like the right moment to move on'

Award-winning Robin Stevens reflects on closing her Murder Most Unladylike series with its ninth adventure Read more
Sophy Henn | 'All of my books are little letters to my daughter at a younger age'

Not all heroes wear capes but Sophy Henn's newest protagonist, Pizazz, certaibly does... and it is glittery. Read more
Christine Dwyer Hickey | 'Dublin’s gone from boom town to Zoom town'

One of the busiest periods in Christine Dwyer Hickey’s career was meant to have been this April and May, with 31 events scheduled to celebrate... Read more

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