As the PublisHer Lounge makes its debut at Sharjah, the women's organization announces a new partnership with Visa. The post PublisHer Signs Visa as Sponsor of Its New Lounge appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Belinda Ioni Rasmussen has been appointed to the newly created global role of president and publisher at Walker Books Group.

Wymondham’s community bookshop Kett’s Books has awarded Victoria MacKenzie its Trevor Ellingworth Award for her novel For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain (Bloomsbury).

The Booksellers Association (BA) has welcomed the European Parliament’s decision to exclude the books industry from its Late Payment Regulation.

Yomi Adegoke’s The List (Fourth Estate) and Mike Gayle’s A Song of Me and You (Hodder & Stoughton) are among the six selected for the WHSmith Book Club with Richard and Judy.

The Royal Literary Fund has unveiled a new brand identity and website to “make it even easier to access support.”

Octopus Publishing Group has announced that it will be a “prominent” sponsor of the Abergavenny Food Festival, which celebrates the food culture of Wales and beyond.

Christopher John Sansom, author of the Shardlake series of crime novels, known by the pen name C J Sansom, has died.

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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired History’s Most Epic FIBS and History’s Most Epic FAILS by Athena Kugblenu, comedian, podcaster and author.

Sheila Vaughan has retired from Scholastic after 31 years as office manager, with Catherine Bell, group managing director of Scholastic UK, paying tribute to her “immense contribution”.

Philippa Grand has been appointed head of publishing at LSE Press, the academic publishing arm of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

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As the Sheikh Zayed Book Award ceremony approaches, Spain's Casa Árabe is named Cultural Personality of the Year. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award To Honor Spain’s Casa Árabe appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The third Abu Dhabi Congress of Arabic Publishing and Creative Industries opened with a call to demonstrate Arabic culture's potential. The post Abu Dhabi’s Congress: Arabic’s ‘Rightful Place’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.