Literary periodical The London Magazine is launching a new literary award for debuts in partnership with law firm Collyer Bristow.

The Literary Consultancy has created an independent grant-making foundation and poetry award in memory of founder Rebecca Swift.

Quarto’s dramatic boardroom takeover last week was partly motivated by a major shareholder’s concern over the publisher’s debt, The Bookseller has been told.

Virago is publishing The Incendiaries by R O Kwon, a book about a couple, one of whom is drawn into a secretive cult tied to North Korea.

Hachette managed a virtual clean sweep at the 10th annual CrimeFest awards, taking four of the six categories, with YA writer Patrice Lawrence and debut novelist Helena Duggan among the winners.

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education's chief executive explains why it is launching the UK's first survey of ethnic representation in children’s literature.

4th Estate has signed an “unblinking” novel from prize winning Taiwanese author Tash Aw, described as “devastating” and “poignant”.

Serpent’s Tail has acquired The Money Book by campaigning journalist, speaker and consultant Alex Holder.

The jury is out on how things will go for BookExpo trade visitors at the Javits Center and the show's rights badge-holders, who will be in two different parts of the city–as the New York Rights Fair makes its debut at the Manhattan Pavilion. The post The New York Rights Fair Changes the Rights Floorplan…

How are authors' contractual rights with a publisher best handled when the house rolls out a digital subscription offer and promises that its entire content library will be on offer that way? An authors' lawsuit of Cengage is calling the question. The post When Rights Are Alleged To Be ‘Trampled’: Authors Sue Education Publisher Cengage…

How are authors' contractual rights with a publisher best handled when the house rolls out a digital subscription offer and promises that its entire content library will be on offer that way? An authors' lawsuit of Cengage is calling the question. The post When Rights Are Alleged To Be ‘Trampled’: Authors Sue Education Publisher Cengage…

Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they've been formally published? The post Journals Lose Citations to Preprint Servers appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Promising to name an extra-large breed pig after next year's winning book, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize jury isn't laughing this year. Nobody gets the prize. They are not amused. The post No Corks Popped: The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Jury Has No Winner appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Promising to name an extra-large breed pig after next year's winning book, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize jury isn't laughing this year. Nobody gets the prize. They are not amused. The post No Corks Popped: The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Jury Has No Winner appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Children’s author Tom Fletcher has unveiled the second tranche of titles in his kids book club, exclusive to W H Smith.