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Beijing International Book Fair rescheduled for September

The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) has been rescheduled for later this month following its last-minute postponement last week. Read more

Rushdie to release new book on Substack

Salman Rushdie is to serialise his next book on the online platform Substack, alongside sharing short stories and other pieces. Read more

Chakrabarti and Branagh to narrate Shakespeare's sonnets for CUP

Cambridge University Press is to release an audiobook featuring all of Shakespeare's sonnets, narrated by Lolita Chakrabarti and Kenneth Branagh. Read more

Audible to release Peter Kay's record-breaking autobiography with bonus chapters

Audible is releasing an audiobook of Peter Kay’s record-breaking autobiography The Sound of Laughter in September with two new and exclusive bonus chapters.... Read more

Orion Dash does double on RNA Joan Hessayon Award shortlist

Two Orion Dash titles have been nominated for the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Read more

Formy Books launches as Community Interest Company

A diverse and inclusive children’s publisher has become a Community Interest Company (CIC)—a not-for-profit organisation that is externally regulated—to challenge what it sees as the publishing... Read more

Sissay, Osman and Slimani to star at hybrid Durham Book Festival

Durham's annual literary festival will be headlined by authors including Lemn Sissay, Richard Osman and Leïla Slimani, as the event pivots to a hybrid model... Read more

Rankin, Mukherjee and McDermid to headline Bloody Scotland Festival

Scottish crime scene heavy weights Ian Rankin (pictured), Abir Mukherjee and Val McDermid are among authors appearing at the Bloody Scotland crime festival, taking place... Read more

Shafak, Sanghera and Tóibín to headline MarlboroughLit Fest

Elif Shafak, Sathnam Sanghera and Colm Tóibín are among the authors headlining Marlborough LitFest, taking place this autumn as a hybrid event.... Read more

O'Farrell, Whitehead, Osman and Slimani join Cheltenham Festival line-up

Maggie O'Farrell, Colson Whitehead, Richard Osman and Leila Slimani are among authors confirmed for the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival this year.... Read more

Bloody Scotland festival to go ahead as hybrid event

Bloody Scotland International Crime Festival is to go ahead as a live event in September and it will also run a streaming service, thanks to funding from... Read more

NLT and Audible deliver podcast lessons for young offenders

The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Audible have teamed up to bring audiobooks to young people in custody, as well as introducing podcast-making lessons.... Read more

RNIB collaborates with Alexa for audiobook access

Blind and partially sighted readers can now access thousands of audiobooks through the Royal Institute of Blind People's partnership with Amazon's AI assistant Alexa.... Read more

Sex Education star Reynolds to read audiobook of Day's new novel

Actress Tanya Reynolds will read the audiobook of Elizabeth Day’s forthcoming novel Magpie (Fourth Estate) which will be released along with the hardback and e-book on 2nd September.... Read more