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Sevastien Volkov wins Impress Prize for new writers

Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Read more

Bell and NLT invite kids to join letter writing project

Usborne author PG Bell, creator of the children’s book series The Train to Impossible Places, has partnered with the National Literacy Trust and The Postal Museum... Read more

Scottish bookshops keep click and collect option as Sturgeon brands books 'essential'

Bookshops in Scotland will still be able to offer click and collect services despite a toughening of coronavirus restrictions, with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon... Read more

Booker longlistee and Palme D'Or winner make Costa Short Story shortlist

A Palme D’Or-winning screenwriter and director, a former Man Booker-longlisted author and a multi-award nominated Irish writer have made the shortlist of the 2020 Costa Short... Read more

Solaris to publish second anthology by Nisi Shawl

Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing, has acquired a sequel anthology to New Suns by Nisi Shawl. Read more

Bookouture signs two from debut author Lora Davies

Bookouture has acquired two historical novels by debut author Lora Davies. Read more

Holliday Grainger to narrate Girl A audio

Holliday Grainger has been confirmed as the narrator of Girl A (HarperCollins), the hotly tipped debut novel by Abigail Dean.... Read more

Black & White picks up two more from Maskame

Black & White Publishing has acquired Estelle Maskame’s seventh YA novel, Becoming Mila, to be published on the 6th May 2021 as the first book in a... Read more

Midas acquires The bks Agency

Cultural communications agency Midas has acquired literary agency The bks Agency. Read more

Children's Books North to roll out mentoring scheme

Children’s Books North co-founders Tilda Johnson, Emma Layfield and Liz Scott are launching a mentoring scheme for emerging publishing professionals living in the North of England and in... Read more

Jeffrey Archer leaves Pan Mac for HarperCollins in three-book deal

Jeffrey Archer is leaving Pan Macmillan after 18 years and returning to HarperCollins in a three-book deal. Read more

Penguin Books pre-empts YA thriller from 'astounding new voice'

Penguin Books has pre-empted What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson, a YA debut about "beauty, brutality and broken people trying to survive", branded "a masterpiece of a thriller".... Read more

Virago to publish memoir from Dame Eileen Atkins

Actress Dame Eileen Atkins, aged 86, will publish her memoir with Virago in October 2021. Read more

Snelgrove to lead new Bonnier Books digital-first imprint Embla

Bonnier Books UK has appointed Thomas & Mercer publisher Jane Snelgrove to lead its new digital-first imprint, Embla Books, which launches this year. ... Read more

Lloyd extends First World War histories for Viking

Viking is to publish two further First World War history titles by Dr Nick Lloyd, to follow on from The Western Front, which the imprint is... Read more