News

William Collins pre-empts Alan Duncan's 'explosive' diaries

William Collins has pre-empted the “explosive” diaries of former UK Foreign Minister Sir Alan Duncan, kept while he served in government from 2016 until the... Read more

NLT and Premier League give away 25,000 books for World Book Day

The National Literacy Trust and the Premier League are teaming up to distribute nearly 25,000 books to five to 11-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds this World... Read more

Flying Eye Books to publish third from Grill

Flying Eye Books will publish Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue, the publisher's third collaboration with author and illustrator William Grill. ... Read more

HCG acquires three-book series from Chan

Hachette Children's has acquired world rights to a new series from British Chinese author M Chan. The Tiger Warrior series is billed as a "thrilling" action-adventure... Read more

Picador triumphs in 11-way battle for Rabess debut

Picador has triumphed in an 11-publisher auction for Everything's Fine by debut US author Cecilia Rabess, amid a scramble for rights around the world.... Read more

Europa acquires Lillian Fishman's 'beautiful' debut novel

Europa Editions is to publish American author Lillian Fishman's debut novel, Acts of Service, after triumphing in a "fiercely competitive auction". Read more

PPC Annual Award winners revealed

The winners have been revealed for this year's Publishers’ Publicity Circle (PPC) Annual Awards, celebrating the best book campaigns of the past year. Read more

Harvill Secker snaps up Nesbo's 'page-turning' short stories

Harvill Secker has signed a “page-turning” first collection of short stories from bestselling author Jo Nesbo, with film rights already snapped up for two tales.... Read more

Gayford and Lake promoted at Profile as Gray joins exec team

Editors Cecily Gayford and Ed Lake have been appointed joint publishing directors at Profile Books, as Souvenir publisher Rebecca Gray joins the executive team.... Read more

SoA and WGGB launch vanity publishing investigation

The Society of Authors (SoA) and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) have launched a joint investigation into so-called vanity publishing following a sharp... Read more

Jonny Duddle's Gigantosaurus: Dino Spot roars into top spot

Jonny Duddle's Gigantosaurus: Dino Spot (Templar) has lumbered into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, leading the 2021 World Book Day tranche.... Read more

Quick Reads publishers donate copies in new campaign

Publishers of the new Quick Reads series will donate a copy of every book sold as part of a Reading Agency campaign. Read more

Doubleday lands English language debut from Lewis

Doubleday has landed the English language debut from two-time Wales Book of the Year author Caryl Lewis. Read more

Welbeck Children's acquires 'blueprint for future' from Planetari founder Forde

Welbeck Children’s has acquired Bright New World, a non-fiction title from Cindy Forde, founder of the environmental education group Planetari, the organisation dedicated to worldwide environmental... Read more