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Faber releases Dangarembga's Booker Prize shortlisted novel in paperback

Faber has released Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body as a paperback edition this week, after it was announced the novel has made the Booker Prize shortlist. ... Read more

Pan Mac to reopen Smithson office as publishers inch back to office life

Pan Macmillan will reopen its office for two days a week from the end of the month, as publishers inch slowly back towards more normal working.... Read more

Sargent to leave Macmillan US after 'disagreements on direction' of firm

John Sargent is leaving Macmillan US and its parent firm Holtzbrinck following “disagreements regarding the direction” of the publisher. Read more

Darley Anderson opens illustration arm

The Darley Anderson Agency has opened an illustration arm that will represent artists across both children's and adult lists. Read more

William Collins pre-empts Durkin's 'vital' Last Slaves history

William Collins has scooped a “vital” book by historian Dr Hannah Durkin documenting the lives of five of the last enslaved people to reach American... Read more

Barack Obama memoir hailed by booksellers as biggest title of year

Booksellers have hailed the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs as the biggest book of the year and potentially the bestselling since the final... Read more

Peter Brown returns to Templar for new picture book

Templar is to publish Fred Gets Dressed by American author-illustrator Peter Brown. Read more

Cape wins music icon Neneh Cherry’s 'powerful' memoir in 14-way auction

Jonathan Cape has acquired Swedish musician Neneh Cherry’s memoir, A Thousand Threads, in a 14-way auction. Read more

Orion heads to Louis XV’s Paris with Anna Mazzola

Orion Fiction will publish Anna Mazzola’s "utterly immersive" historical novel, The Clockwork Girl. Read more

Scholastic UK scores with novel from Ian Wright

Scholastic UK has acquired Striking Out, a novel for children based on the life of footballer Ian Wright. The title is written by Wright in partnership with Musa... Read more

Pan Mac wins four-publisher fight for Payne

Pan Macmillan has won a four-way auction for Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Financial Times political correspondent Sebastian Payne.... Read more

Amazon Charts: Osman and Partridge double up

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top 20 for a second week running, in the same week... Read more

Zaffre to publish 'dark and twisted' debut thriller The Art of Death

Bonnier Books UK has acquired an "intensely creepy" serial killer thriller debut, The Art of Death by David Fennell, to publish under the Zaffre imprint in February 2021.... Read more

Thursday Murder Club hits charts top spot for a second week

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has renewed its membership to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling... Read more

Bloomsbury Caravel to publish Portraits for NHS Heroes

Bloomsbury Caravel, in partnership with NHS Charities Together, is publishing Portraits for NHS Heroes this November after the success of artist Tom Croft’s #PortraitsForNHSHeroes project. ... Read more