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Lacey departs Myriad after 15 years as parent firm 'scales back' publishing

Candida Lacey, publishing director of Myriad Editions, is leaving the trade imprint she has helmed for over 15 years. Read more

HarperCollins and Belton go to High Court over Putin's People

Author Catherine Belton and publisher HarperCollins are going to the High Court today (28th July) to take on Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft and three Russian billionaires,... Read more

Hachette's Gender Balance Network launches free pay transparency event

Hachette UK’s Gender Balance Network has organised a free virtual event on 2nd September to explore equality and transparency. Read more

Trio join BA council as membership passes 1,000 milestone

Independent booksellers Allison Jinks, Jess Paul and Sheryl Shurville have joined the Booksellers Association advisory council, as membership to the association passes 1,000 for the... Read more

Amazon Charts: Haig does the double for a second time

Matt Haig's The Comfort Book and The Midnight Library (both Canongate) have claimed the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction and Fiction top spots, respectively.... Read more

Prestel Children's to publish Skibiński's Second World War diary

Prestel Children's has acquired I Saw A Beautiful Woodpecker, a "remarkable" Second World War diary, written by an eight-year-old Polish boy, Michał Skibiński, in 1939.... Read more

Northern Fiction Alliance launches London summer showcase

The Northern Fiction Alliance is launching a London summer showcase of five of its publishers and their forthcoming authors next month. Read more

Megamonster sinks its claws into the top for a fifth week

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Megamonster (HarperCollins) notched up a fifth week in the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, selling 19,799 copies through... Read more

HarperNorth scoops 73-year-old debut novelist Lady Cameron

HarperNorth has scooped a "sweeping historical romance" from 73-year-old debut novelist Lady Cecil Cameron. Read more

US marketing tech company acquires Bloodhound Books

US-based marketing tech company Open Road Media (OR/M) has acquired UK e-book specialist indie Bloodhound Books for an undisclosed sum. Read more

Oh, What A Lovely Century narrated by Scott-Howells, Skinner and Callow

The audiobook of Roderic Fenwick Owen's memoir Oh, What A Lovely Century will be narrated by actors Callum Scott-Howells, Hugh Skinner and Simon Callow, who will each cover... Read more

Dawn French narrates first ever audiobook of I Love My... series

Dawn French will narrate an audiobook edition of Giles Andreae’s I Love My… picture books for Bolinda, the first time any of the series will be produced... Read more

Influx Press launches first novel prize for Black British women with Black Ballad

Independent publisher Influx Press is launching a new fiction prize for Black British women, in partnership with lifestyle platform Black Ballad. Read more

First Sky Arts RSL Writers Award winners announced

The RSL has announced the recipients of the inaugural 2021 Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards, which celebrate and nurture British writers of colour at the... Read more