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J L George and Peter Goulding win New Welsh Writing Awards

J L George and Peter Goulding have won this year's New Welsh Writing Awards, bagging £1,000 each and feedback from Curtis Brown literary agent Cathryn... Read more

Orion Spring lands Purvis guide for insecure girls

Orion Spring has landed YouTube star and blogger Olivia Purvis’ practical empowerment guide for insecure girls and women, to accompany her popular Instagram account.... Read more

Primadonna Festival launches inaugural writing prize

The Primadonna Festival has launched its inaugural prize to celebrate "brilliant writing from emerging as well as established artists". Read more

The Margate Bookshop opens its doors

A Grade II-listed, former textile studio is being transformed into a bookshop in Margate. Read more

Pictures of the week

#Merky Books holds its first ever free writer's camp in this week's pictures round-up, while Sir Philip Pullman is knighted and Bryony Gordan launches her... Read more

Matharu and Staunton Howe join Reading Agency's adult reading team

The Reading Agency has made two new hires as it prepares to re-launch its Quick Reads scheme later this year. Read more

HarperCollins triumphs at BMS awards

The Book Marketing Society’s seasonal awards for January to March have been unveiled, with wins for HarperCollins, BonnierZaffre, BlueBird (PanMacmillan) and Hachette Children’s.... Read more

Bonnier joins forces with Children in Need for Ade Adepitan title

Piccadilly Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, will publish a second children’s fiction title by Ade Adepitan in partnership with BBC Children in Need.... Read more

Independent Bookshop Week launches live podcast tour

Podcasts including Book Off!, Not Another Book Podcast and The Bestseller Experiment Podcast will take part in Independent Bookshop Week's live podcast tour. ... Read more

Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2019 shortlist revealed

Six titles have made the shortlist for this year's Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, celebrating the best science books for children. Read more

Richard Osman's fiction debut scooped by Viking for seven figures in 10-way auction

Viking has acquired TV presenter Richard Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, and one other novel, for a seven-figure sum, after triumphing in one... Read more

Brooks wins Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize

Sarah Brooks has won the £1,500 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize with her YA novel The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands. Read more

Little Toller snaps up 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's book

Little Toller Books will publish Diary of a Young Naturalist by 15-year-old campaigner Dara McAnulty, set to be the Independent Dorset-based publisher’s “biggest book yet”.... Read more

Kyle scoops Allen's one pot cookbook

Octopus imprint Kyle Books has scooped a new cookbook from Darina Allen featuring 100 simple one pot recipes. Read more

Coronet buys McGee's 'brilliant' take on the cost of love

Coronet has bought a “brilliant and unique” take on failed romantic relationships by performer Haley McGee, who uses a mathematical formula to work out the cost... Read more