This week, the UK and the Scottish governments set out their roadmaps to how the current lockdowns might be lifted.

Half way through my interview with Kirsty Capes, she mentions the fact that most people can’t name books about children in care. I rack my brains before feebly coming out with: “Tracy Beaker ?”, which makes Capes, whose new adult novel Careless is about a teenage girl in foster care, laugh. “That’s all anyone can…

Let's get the elephant in the dining car out of the way.

Pakistan, and particularly her mother's home city of Karachi, have long held a fascination for British journalist Samira Shackle. In fact, in 2012 she quit her job at the New Statesman and for a year became a Karachiite. Shackle says: “I had an urge to reconnect with this heritage—this was partly personal, and partly because…

Back in 2018, an advert for what seemed like the perfect job for book lovers went viral after Sonu Shivdasani, founder of Soneva luxury holiday resorts, and Philip Blackwell, c.e.o. of Ultimate Library—a company that creates bespoke book collections for hotels and private clients—came up with the idea to open a bookshop in the Maldives…

Faber has acquired pioneering teacher and writer Beryl Gilroy's memoir, Black Teacher. 

Bonnier Books UK and Konnie Huq have teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to deliver a lockdown eco lesson on the Daily Mail website Mail+, with 8,000 copies of the author's latest book set to be donated to children in Bradford.

Repetition is the mother of learning. Sadly, it is also the genesis of entrenched behaviour and bad habits. On this basis, I for one am keeping hope alive that repetition can be the unlearning of ingrained bad behaviour. Maybe I am just a dreamer.

Sales at Simon & Schuster came in at an all time high in 2020 at $901m, ViacomCBS has reported.

Mitchell Beazley has bagged Chetna's 30 Minute Indian, the fifth book from “Bake Off” star Chetna Makan.

The New York University Center for Publishing's Summer Publishing Institute has three newly developed scholarships this year. The post NYU Center for Publishing Announces Diversity Scholarships appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The New York University Center for Publishing's Summer Publishing Institute has three newly developed scholarships this year. The post NYU Center for Publishing Announces Diversity Scholarships appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Books of Jacob, praised by the Nobel prize judges and winner of Poland’s prestigious Nike award, will be published in the UK in NovemberThe magnum opus of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk – a novel that has taken seven years to translate and has brought its author death threats in her native Poland – is…

In a new FGEE survey of Spanish readers, the number of people reading weekly increased from 50 percent in 2019 to 57 percent in 2020. The post Spain’s Publishers: COVID-19 Boosted Readership to a Record High in 2020 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

In a new FGEE survey of Spanish readers, the number of people reading weekly increased from 50 percent in 2019 to 57 percent in 2020. The post Spain’s Publishers: COVID-19 Boosted Readership to a Record High in 2020 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.