William Collins has triumphed in a six-way auction for Andrew Stauffer’s narrative history of the summer of 1816 and the ...

Kesia Lupo is joining Macmillan Children’s Books as commissioning editor next month. Lupo will manage and publish key fiction ...

East-London based charity Ministry of Stories has recruited the Southbank Centre’s director of arts, planning and producing ...

DK has appointed Daniel Groenewald as UK sales director, where he moves from his role as sales and marketing director at Head ...

A tiny new bookshop that has been decorated to look like the books are on the outside is attracting a lot of attention in ...

Galbraith is from south Manchester and has lived in Sheffield since 1994 with his wife and daughters. After working in senior management in several business sectors, he sold his company and embarked ...

Research from the National Literacy Trust has exposed the decline of children and young people writing for pleasure, ...

In one of the quietest weeks of the year so far, Claire Douglas’ The New Neighbours (Penguin) has moved straight into the ...

An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing ...

Genevieve Carver, Ali Smith, Jen Stout and Joni Buchanan are some of the writers shortlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize ...

The global academic publisher Emerald Publishing has been recognised for its commitment to gender equality for the second ...

Novelist Robert Harris, author of Conclave, has won Give a Book's The Pleasure of Reading Prize for 2025, worth £10,000.