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Jacqueline Atta-Hayward wins Bad Form x Bad Love Short Story Competition

Writer Jacqueline Atta-Hayward has been announced as the winner of the Bad Form x Bad Love Short Story Competition run by literary magazine Bad Form Review... Read more

Hamish Hamilton's Chukwu finalist for the Black British Business Awards

Hannah Chukwu, assistant editor at PRH imprint Hamish Hamilton, has been announced as a finalist for the 2021 Black British Business Awards in the Arts... Read more

'Extraordinary' crime writer Mo Hayder dies of motor neurone disease

The industry has paid tribute to "brilliant storyteller" and crime author Clare Dunkel, also known as Mo Hayder, who has died from motor neurone disease.... Read more

HarperCollins provides free library e-book access for Summer Reading Challenge

HarperCollins is partnering with The Reading Agency to provide libraries with free access to 35 e-books for children as part of its Summer Reading Challenge.... Read more

M&S Food to publish first children's book with HarperCollins

Supermarket chain Marks & Spencer is launching its first children's book with HarperCollins about sustainability, the origins of food and how to contribute to a... Read more

Audible launches Premium Plus membership with unlimited access to over 7,500 titles

Audible is giving its members unlimited access to more than 7,500 titles spanning fiction, non-fiction, documentaries, comedy, theatre, journalism and children’s content, as part of its new Plus Catalogue... Read more

Moore's Follet Valley series optioned for TV by Agatha Raisin producers

Comedian Ian Moore’s mystery series Follet Valley, including the first book Death and Croissants (Farrago), has been optioned for TV by the company behind Agatha Raisin.... Read more

Bookstat chart: Last Night stands tall in the chart

Mhairi McFarlane's Last Night (HarperCollins) has held the Bookstat e-book chart number one for a second week, reigning for the week ending 24th July.... Read more

HarperCollins partners with Wastebuster on 'recycle to read' campaign

HarperCollins has joined forces with not-for-profit recycling programme Wastebuster on its "recycle to read" campaign, which aims to develop a UK wide infrastructure for the recycling of... Read more

Faulks, Powers and Towles at Hutchinson Heinemann showcase

Sebastian Faulks has spoken of how male authors writing female characters is increasingly viewed with scepticism, while Richard Powers revealed the impact of the pandemic... Read more

Hachette scoops award-winner Pang's first children's book

Hachette Children’s Group will publish Perfectly Weird, Perfectly You: A Scientific Guide to Growing Up, the debut children’s book from Dr Camilla Pang, the youngest... Read more

HarperCollins reveals 10th anniversary edition of Walliams' Gangsta Granny

A special paperback anniversary limited edition of David Walliams and Tony Ross' Gangsta Granny will be published by HarperCollins Children's Books this autumn, to mark a decade... Read more

Little Toller to release raft of debuts and first picture book

Independent publisher Little Toller Books is publishing a number of debut authors over the next two years, and will also release its first children's picture... Read more