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Editor's Letter

Reading is worth scrapping for

According to recent research, just 23% of the population can be described as "keen" readers, with the other segments ranging from "self-conscious" to "unconfident".

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A capital that wants to read differently

by Latifa Moftaqir

As UNESCO World Book Capital for 2026, Rabat has ambitious plans.

We need more bridges

by Derek Owusu

Who feels that reading belongs to them in the first place?

Reading within military life

by David Orson Newton

We need to make a concerted effort to provide our armed forces with books.

Editor‘s Letter

Reading is worth scrapping for

According to recent research, just 23% of the population can be described as "keen" readers, with the other segments ranging from "self-conscious" to "unconfident".

READ LETTER IN FULL

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Bloomsbury is consciously unglobaling

by Philip Jones

The “verticalising” of the company’s business into three distinct divisions comprising Bloomsbury Global Academic & Professional, Bloomsbury USA and Bloomsbury Consumer UK will see it respond to changing tastes and customer preferences.

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by Nick Barley

In times of war, poetry can document devastation – and offer grassroots resistance.

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by Horace Bent

Airport killjoys hit the ’Super Hans’ award, while the fizz flies at Puffin

Small presses and the difference in kind

by Neil Griffiths

Publishing must come together to secure small press success.

Bologna Children's Book Fair 2026: Horace Bent – This devil wears Balenciaga

by Horace Bent

Horace Bent meets friends, villains and Villans as Bologna kicks into gear.

A cuckoo for our times

by Natasha Tripney

Can a new staging of Ken Kesey’s cult novel speak to modern audiences?

Events are not a campaign solution

by Sabah Khan

... and we need to be clearer on when, and why, they’re the best choice.

Bonnier FC looks to Wrexham not Hollywood

by Philip Jones

Bonnier Books UK may not have the financial market clout as Penguin Random House, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury or Simon & Schuster UK, but it is focusing on nurturing talent.