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Bonus Vlautin CD released as Faber publishes novel

To celebrate the publication of Willy Vlautin’s new novel The Night Always Comes (3rd June), Faber has announced a bonus CD for Rough Trade customers. ... Read more

Macmillan International Higher Education moves from Springer Nature to Macmillan Learning

The Macmillan International Higher Education team, with 17 employees, is to be transferred from Springer Nature to Macmillan Learning. ... Read more

Short Books to publish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mukwege

Short Books will publisher Nobel laureate Dr Denis Mukwege's The Power of Women in autumn 2021. Read more

Liz Pichon launches podcast to celebrate 10 years of Tom Gates

Liz Pichon will launch a “Tremendous Tales” podcast series in June for children and families to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of her Tom Gates series. ... Read more

Donaldson and Morpurgo to open Barnes Children's Literature Festival

Bestselling children's authors Julia Donaldson and Sir Michael Morpurgo will open the Barnes Children's Literature Festival on 26th June, the first festival to return as... Read more

Cotter's second dog diary goes to Black & White

Black & White Publishing has acquired a second book from Andrew Cotter, Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabel. Read more

Hachette's Mo Siewcharran Prize returns

Hachette UK’s Mo Siewcharran Prize returns this year, setting out to discover unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. Read more

Thomas takes up Pearson role

Publisher Annette Thomas has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of Pearson, taking effect from 1st October. Read more

Reeve and McIntyre to launch virtual bookshop tour

Author illustrators Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre are to embark on a virtual bookshop tour this summer, highlighting and supporting the work of booksellers in the... Read more

HQ takes two from Andi Osho

HQ has signed two further books from writer and actress Andi Osho. Read more

Puffin signs trio of 'future classics' from Hills, Hawking and Newbery

Puffin has signed a trio of “future classics” with a children's debut by “The Last Leg” presenter Adam Hills, the first in a new Lucy... Read more

H&S pre-empts Tom Ireland's exploration of phages

Hodder & Stoughton will publish The Good Virus by science writer and Royal Society of Biology editor Tom Ireland, the untold story of phages, the "most under-appreciated... Read more

Buchanan debut optioned by Gaumont UK

Gaumont UK has optioned Greg Buchanan's debut literary thriller Sixteen Horses to develop it into a drama series. Read more

ALCS launches quiz for Westminster audience

The Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) has launched an interactive quiz aimed at MPs, to highlight the roles authors have played over the past... Read more

Bloomsbury acquires RGP imprint

Bloomsbury has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of academic imprint Red Globe Press (RGP), from Macmillan Education Limited. Read more