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Rizzoli International is opening a London-based publishing business, Rizzoli UK, led by Stephen King, who was previously managing director of Hardie Grant.
The National Literacy Trust raised £207,000 at its 30th Anniversary Gala Dinner last night (7th March) at a star-studded event attended by Julia Donaldson, Francesca Simon and Joseph Coelho.
The Erotic Review is relaunching in print, with the first issue publishing on Monday 11th March.
Puffin has appointed Natalie Doherty in the newly created role of publisher for Puffin Press, part of Penguin Random House Children’s.
Kathryn Scanlan has won the £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize for her "bravura investigation of authenticity and form", Kick the Latch (Daunt Books).
The Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency has confirmed children’s author and BBC Scotland presenter Nick Sheridan has died aged 32 after a short illness.
John Donatich, director of Yale University Press, is to retire on 30th June, after more than two decades leading the publisher.
On International Women’s Day Kate Mosse, co-founder of the Women’s prize for fiction and bestselling author of Labyrinth, heralds a new honour Gloria Steinem said: “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” The…
Bookselling Ireland — a committee of Irish members of the Booksellers Association — is urging schools to use local bookshops to source books, following the release of guidelines for the extension of the Free School Books Scheme by the Department of Education.
Taylor & Francis revenues are up 4.3% for 2023 to £619m, with adjusted operating profit up 4.4% to £217.9m.