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Piatkus strikes two-book deal with Caroline England

Piatkus has bought two new books by Manchester-based author and former divorce lawyer, Caroline England. Read more

Oneworld acquires Black Lives Matter activist’s ‘moving’ memoir

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson’s memoir On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America will be published in the UK in... Read more

riverrun pre-empts historian's take on today's four horsemen

Quercus imprint riverrun has pre-empted a book about unsung heroes who are grappling with key threats in our age from historian Emily Mayhew.... Read more

Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray writes 'deeply personal memoir' on weight for Transworld

Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray is publishing a book called Fat Cow, Fat Chance with Transworld, investigating the science, social history and psychology of women... Read more

Libraries Connected awarded £75k ACE funding for regional development

Libraries Connected, the charity formerly known as the Society of Chief Librarians, has been awarded £75,000 from the Arts Council to develop better regional support.... Read more

Finch swaps Bloomsbury for Canongate

Bloomsbury’s Lisa Finch will join Canongate in February to cover Steph Scott’s maternity leave. Read more

Morpurgo, James and Byatt join forces with London bookshops to raise money for homeless

Daunt Books, Waterstones and Foyles are raising money for The Passage, a charity that supports people who are homeless, by selling a book of short... Read more

Watson, Little hires Rachel Richardson as rights director

Watson, Little Ltd has hired the literary agency’s first rights director, Rachel Richardson. Read more

Robert Harris joins Capital Crime line-up

Bestselling author Robert Harris is joining the line-up for David Headley and Adam Hamdy's new London festival Capital Crime. Read more

PA says MPs must 'come together' to protect publishing as May survives vote

The Publishers Association has tentatively welcomed the outcome of last night’s no-confidence vote, with Theresa May’s continued leadership increasing the chances of a deal-based Brexit... Read more

Faber scoops Hamer's 'gripping' third novel

Faber will publish the third novel from Kate Hamer, Crushed, about an obsessive friendship between three girls. Read more

Graffeg signs four picture books by Doyle and Whitson

Welsh independent publisher Graffeg has acquired four more picture books by author and illustrator team Malachy Doyle and Andrew Whitson. Read more

Puffin signs Write Now graduate Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Penguin Random House Children's imprint Puffin Books has signed a two-book deal with Rashmi Sirdeshpande, a graduate of the publisher’s mentoring scheme for writers from under-represented... Read more

Johnson and Jones join BBC Short Story judging panel

Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy Johnson is joining fellow authors Cynan Jones and Richard Beard to judge the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge... Read more

CILIP makes 11 redundancies in 'modernising' restructure

After "a very challenging year", UK library and information association CILIP is undergoing a restructure that will see almost a fifth of its 54-strong team... Read more