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Jacob P Avila wins Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize

Jacob P Avila has won this year's Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript, for his contemporary thriller Cave Diver.... Read more

Legacies of empire explored in shortlist for £25k Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

The five-strong shortlist for the £25,000 British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding sees works on the discoveries of 20th-century anthropologists side by side with studies... Read more

UK's physical attendance at Frankfurt Book Fair set to be minimal

The Frankfurt Book Fair looks set to see only a very small attendance from the British publishing industry this year, as organisations spoken to by The Bookseller have... Read more

Blair Partnership makes Eurovision winner Dana International agent-at-large

The Blair Partnership has appointed Israeli pop singer and Eurovision winner Dana International as an agent-at-large for writers from the LGBTQ community.... Read more

Beijing's digital fair brings technical headaches but also plus points, say publishers

UK publishers have given mixed reports of their experience at the digital-only Beijing International Book Fair, with the format offering up new possibilities though also some technical... Read more

Edinburgh International Book Festival celebrates 'special' digital experience

Edinburgh International Book Festival director Nick Barley has said this year's event has "generated its own sense of community", despite being entirely online for the first... Read more

Johnstone and Parry among McIlvanney Prize shortlistees

Andrew James Grieg, Francine Toon and Doug Johnstone have made the final four in the running for Bloody Scotland's McIlvanney Prize, with Johnstone reaching... Read more

Authors walk out on Bloomsbury India following book cancellation

A number of authors have withdrawn their books from Bloomsbury India, after the publishing house pulled Monika Arora's Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story, scheduled for... Read more

Daly named O'Brien Press Bookseller of the Year

Antonia Daly has won The O’Brien Press Bookseller of the Year Award, commended for personifying prized qualities including knowledge, passion, courage and an ability to find the right... Read more

US publishing bodies protest against Amazon tactics

Key trade bodies in the US – the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association – have sent a letter to Capitol... Read more

Book Aid sends over 1.2m books in 2019

Book Aid International sent more than 1.2 million books to 26 countries in 2019, the charity has said in its end of year report. Read more

Kennedy launches crowdfunder for Beirut book industry

The director of an international publishing consultancy company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support those who work in Beirut's book industry, following an explosion that... Read more

S&S' global revenues slip 3% in first half, Chapman 'encouraged' in the UK

Simon & Schuster's global revenues for the first half of 2020 dipped 3%, down from $382m to $370m, according to parent firm ViacomCBS's latest results. Earnings however rose to $57m, up 6% from $54m. ... Read more

Booker-longlisted author freed on bail after arrest in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been released on bail, following her arrest last week in Harare during an anti-government demonstration. ... Read more

LAJ Associates to scout for HC Germany

Literary scout Louise Allen-Jones has announced a new relationship between her agency and HarperCollins Germany, set to begin on 1st August. ... Read more