Yasmine Awwad, Sophie Meadows and Mathelinda Nabugodi have been shortlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, chosen from 983 entries this year. 

Candida Lacey, former publishing director at Myriad Editions, is joining the newly announced Footnote Press as consulting editor. 

Picador has stopped distribution of Alice Sebold's memoir Lucky as the author apologised to the man who was exonerated of her rape last week, 40 years after his conviction.

I was 10 years old when I read my first crime fiction novel. A charity shop copy of Agatha Christie’s 1935 Death in the Clouds, gifted from my gran. For the 38 years since I have devoured crime fiction and thrillers. And I am not alone. In the UK in June 2020, the publishing industry…

Journalist Philip Clark and novelist and essayist Javier Montes have been named as the winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, at a reception at the British Library. 

HarperCollins has completed its acquisition of Pavilion Books, finalising a deal it announced in October.

Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone (Cornerstone) has buzzed straight into the Bookstat e-book number one, topping the chart in the same week it debuted in the Original Fiction top two through the TCM. 

The pandemic had a “significant impact” on Cambridge University Press’ financial results for 2020-21, but the publisher remains “robust” according to its latest annual report.  

From 1971 to 1987, the period of fastest growth, BCA was run by Stan Remington. Wilbur’s death prompted me to contact his daughter to ensure he had heard the bad news. It turns out that he died, largely unrecorded in the trade press, in February this year. 

Paul McCartney’s "magnificent" The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Allen Lane) has been named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2021, while Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston's Julia and the Shark (Orion Children's Books) took the Children's Gift of the Year title.

The translation of Deceit by ‘groundbreaking’ author Yuri Felsen, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to come out next MayThe debut novel by Yuri Felsen, an author once regarded as the “Russian Proust” whose work has been forgotten since he died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to be published in English for…

The footballer and campaigner is writing story with Alex Falase-Koya, drawing on his own memories of friendships made before starting the school day Fresh from receiving an MBE for his campaigning to lift children out of poverty, Marcus Rashford is now warming up for a new challenge: the England footballer is writing a children’s novel.Rashford…

Scribner has responded to the news that Anthony Broadwater has been cleared of the crime at the centre of Lucky by ceasing to distribute the bookAlice Sebold’s publisher Scribner is pulling her 1999 memoir Lucky from shelves after a man was cleared of the rape at the heart of it.Anthony Broadwater was convicted of raping…

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today's post looks at "Accelerating DEI: Have the Data? Use the Data!" The post Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 3 appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

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