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Evaristo, Maiklem and Anderson win Indie Book Awards 2020

This year's top summer reads according to indie booksellers have been revealed, with Bernardine Evaristo, Lara Maiklem, Sophie Anderson and Chris Haughton named as winners of... Read more

J A Mensah | 'I connect with the North East's sense of being on the margins'

Juliana Mensah, the inaugural winner of the NorthBound Book Award, talks to us about the prize and her winning entry, début novel Castles from Cobwebs. ... Read more

Writers of colour forced to publicise themselves, Koomson says

Writers of colour are denied a level playing field and often have to publicise books themselves because the industry does not understand how to reach non-white middle-class... Read more

Publishers bring back furloughed staff

Furloughing is coming to an end at most of the big publishing firms, with many presses saying they have no plans to make redundancies following... Read more

Braithwaite, Fforde and James to pen new Quick Reads for 2021

Oyinkan Braithwaite, Katie Fforde and Peter James are among the line-up of authors penning a new series of short novels for Quick Reads. Read more

Publishing must 'radically reimagine' its audience, major diversity study says

The UK's first academic study on diversity in trade publishing and fiction has called for the industry to “radically reimagine” its audience and value readers... Read more

HopeRoad extends postcolonial literary studies award

The HopeRoad Prize for postcolonial literary studies is to be renewed for a further three years and to extend its remit, the publisher has said.... Read more

Trade remembers Bryan as 'one of the greats'

The book trade has continued to pay tribute to literary agent Felicity Bryan, as "one of the smartest, kindest and brilliant agents" and "one of the... Read more

SoA and ALCS join creative industry submission to Commons Covid-19 inquiry

The Society of Authors and The Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society have joined calls for a UK Creators’ Council to help inform future policy making and are backing a "specific, flexible" Department for Digital, Culture, Media (DCMS) Recovery Plan... Read more