Marvel books publisher DK has responded with "great sadness" to the death of Stan Lee, the creative genius behind the Marvel universe.

Bloomsbury Continuum will publish Anne Frank: The Collected Works next May, in the year that she would have celebrated her 90th birthday.

Thirty-six short stories were submitted for the first ever FutureBook speculative fiction competition run with digital reading platform the Pigeonhole.

Pearson has agreed the sale of its FT freehold and corporate headquarters at One Southwark Bridge to M&G Real Estate for £115m.

Michael O’Mara will next year publish a memoir by Malcolm Alexander, the only doctor on the Orkney island of Eday.

Independent children’s publisher Imagine That is setting up an office in North America.

Jonathan Cape publisher Robin Robertson has taken the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for his "convention-defying novel in verse" The Long Take (Pan Macmillan).

Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid and Neel Mukherjee have all been shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 worth $25,000 (£19,200).

Harvard professor Serhii Plokhy has won this year’s £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for his account of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The 2019 Women’s Prize’s judging panel has been unveiled, featuring author and historian Kate Williams, writer Dolly Alderton, and Unbound’s Arifa Akbar among others.

The Chilean-American Isabel Allende receives the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards. The post National Book Awards Honor Allende: ‘I’ve Found a Place’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

'It is the cleanest energy as long as nothing happens,' says author Serhii Plokhy of nuclear energy, winning the Baillie Gifford for 'Chernobyl.' The post US Author Serhii Plokhy Wins the UK’s Baillie Gifford Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

'It is the cleanest energy as long as nothing happens,' says author Serhii Plokhy of nuclear energy, winning the Baillie Gifford for 'Chernobyl.' The post US Author Serhii Plokhy Wins the UK’s Baillie Gifford Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The deadline for proposing sessions for next year's SSP Meeting is approaching. Get your ideas in this week! The post Last Chance — Invitation to Participate in the SSP 41st Annual Meeting appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Peirene Press founder Meike Ziervogel is spending a year in Beirut to learn the language and translate more of the region's literature into English. The post Peirene Press’ Meike Ziervogel in Beirut: ‘We Have a Social Responsibility’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.