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£1.57bn arts rescue package is 'seismic step forward', says Norbury

The Creative Industries Federation and Creative England has welcomed the government's new £1.57bn fund to help the arts as "the game changer we need".... Read more

Publication date of Trump niece's memoir brought forward

The publication date of Mary Trump's memoir, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, has been brought forward to... Read more

Hodder embarks on a Scottish road trip with 'Outlander' stars

Hodder & Stoughton will publish Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other, by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, stars of the historical drama... Read more

PA to refund small publishers' membership fee

The Publishers Association has announced it will refund three months' worth of membership fees for small publishers, in recognition of the trading difficulties faced during lockdown. ... Read more

Katie Bond appointed publisher at Aurum

Katie Bond is departing her role as publisher at the National Trust to become publisher at The Quarto Group's Aurum imprint. Read more

Publishers cut ties with David Starkey after 'abhorrent' comments

HarperCollins says it will no longer publish books by historian David Starkey and is reviewing his backlist, describing his recent comments on slavery as “abhorrent”. Vintage and... Read more

Ellan Rankin wins 2020 Carmelite Picture Book Prize

Aspiring illustrator Ellan Rankin has been announced by Hachette as this year's winner of the Carmelite Picture Book Prize. Read more

Conran and Griffiths on Wales Book of the Year shortlist

Alys Conran and Niall Griffiths are among writers shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award, which includes a new category for children's books for... Read more

Canongate signs latest Matt Haig children's book

Canongate is to publish Matt Haig's new children's book, A Mouse Called Miika. Read more

HarperCollins supports Reading Agency Summer Reading Challenge

HarperCollins is working with the Reading Agency on its Summer Reading Challenge, with Collins donating 260,000 books. Read more

PA compiles audio reading list for parliamentarians

The Publishers Association has compiled a summer audio reading list for parliamentarians as it urges them to remove VAT on audiobooks. Read more

Grisebach becomes chair of Edition Peters Group

Rolf Grisebach has become the chair of classical music publishers Edition Peters. Read more

Jilly Cooper's journalism collection to Transworld

Transworld has bagged Between the Covers, a collection of journalism from Jilly Cooper. Read more

Hislop to bring out children's version of bestseller The Island

Victoria Hislop will return to The Island (Headline Review, 2006) for a children's edition titled Maria's Island, published by Walker Books.... Read more