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Prisoners face obstacles to library access despite 'life-saving' benefits, ACE report warns

Cultural Union magazine expands into book publishing

Hachette Livre recalls three textbooks in France over 7th October attacks error

Books on Podcasts: 2026 kicks off with debut novelist Shen Tao

Books Council of Wales awarded additional £350k to support publishing industry

British Library seizes possession of the indie charts

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Prisoners face obstacles to library access despite 'life-saving' benefits, ACE report warns

Cultural Union magazine expands into book publishing

Batsford Books promotes Rebecca Armstrong to commissioning editor of new list

Hachette Livre recalls three textbooks in France over 7th October attacks error

Books on Podcasts: 2026 kicks off with debut novelist Shen Tao

Callen Martin joins Madeleine Milburn Agency as literary agent

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Check out these video highlights from the inaugural British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies

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RNLI volunteer Dominic Gregory shares his heart-in-mouth experiences as a lifeboat crew member

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The latest from John Lanchester is a stylish and entertaining revenge comedy that skewers the chattering classes

Nibbies Pageturner winner Saara El-Arifi sets out to connect Cleopatra to modern womanhood

Welsh children’s author Huw Aaron on prioritising story over a message

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Check out these video highlights from the inaugural British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies

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Sensitivity: vandalism or restoration?

by Anonymous writer

How do we make a call on problematic language when the author is no longer alive?

Horace Bent: It’s all so quiet, so let the FBF party begin…

by Horace Bent

With Italy as the Guest of Honour this year, Horace, usually a reflective soul, arrives in Frankfurt in search of la dolce vita.

Horace Bent: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

by Horace Bent

Horace discovers that there are numerous exit strategies when it comes to making your way home from publishers’ parties.

Horace Bent: Karp navigates over the pond to spread the love

by Horace Bent

Simon & Schuster chief takes to the main stage at LBF to heap praise on his UK counterpart.

Horace Bent: spread the nerd—SFF set to conquer Olympia fair

by Horace Bent

This year’s London Book Fair, brought forward to avoid a clash with the Bologna children’s equivalent, has posed a dilemma for some agency bigwigs...

Sharing science for success

by Ritu Dhand & Harsh Jegadeesan

A regime incorporating inclusive science, where negative results can play an important role, can help advance outcomes—and it could also save researchers billions.

Horace Bent: Party-hopping Horace urges Hachette u-turn

by Horace Bent

In his final diary at this year’s fair, Horace Bent sampled the hospitality at a trio of parties—only ejected from one—and issues a plea for FBF 2024…

Horace Bent: Malaviya settles in as Bent ponders Diagram

by Horace Bent

Penguin Random House’s new chief had a jovial chat at yesterday’s fair, but Horace only had the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title on his mind.

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Non-fiction Previews

In early spring, expect a myriad of feminist titles, while the Book of the Month is a debut memoir that confronts the distressing reality behind the ‘small boats crisis’

by Caroline Sanderson