Puffin has picked up Welcome to the World, a “tender and lyrical picture book” from Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury.

Penguin Random House has opened applications for The Scheme 2021, its traineeship to find talent from under-represented groups in publishing, and extended it into sales and publicity alongside editorial.

Pan Macmillan has signed The Midwife, a feminist historical novel by Tricia Cresswell, winner of the Mslexia Novel Competition.

HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish Morpurgo’s Tales from Shakespeare by Michael Morpurgo, a retelling of 10 of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.

Cassell Illustrated will publish a 25th anniversary book on the inside story of the landmark Oasis gigs at Knebworth. 

Sheridan Smith has written her first memoir, Honestly, to be published by Ebury Spotlight this autumn.

When Book Trust asked Firefly to support the UK Children’s Laureate campaign to increase funding for primary school libraries, I was delighted. Not just because I went to a school with a library, and sneaking off there on a rainy break-time was one of the treats of my school day! I also hoped the campaign…

Graham Norton is launching a book club podcast through Audible, featuring guests including Zadie Smith, Stephen Mangan and Denise Mina.

Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) has bounced back into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, the week bookshops reopened across England following the third national lockdown.

Allen Lane has two titles shortlisted for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize, which celebrates excellence in research and historical writing combined with readability for a wider audience.

Again, Simon & Schuster's zeal for expanding its strong political books list in nonfiction finds the Big Five house under fire. The post Simon & Schuster and Political Books: Mattingly and Mike Pence appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Again, Simon & Schuster's zeal for expanding its strong political books list in nonfiction finds the Big Five house under fire. The post Simon & Schuster and Political Books: Mattingly and Mike Pence appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Data now being collected for a third year, also shows a distinct migration of Italian book sales from physical bookstores to online retail. The post Italy’s First Quarter Report: Book Sales Up 26.6 Percent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Data now being collected for a third year, also shows a distinct migration of Italian book sales from physical bookstores to online retail. The post Italy’s First Quarter Report: Book Sales Up 26.6 Percent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Like all OA funding models, subscribe-to-open solves some problems while creating others. Some of the downsides are pretty fundamental. The post Feasibility, Sustainability, and the Subscribe-to-Open Model appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.