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The Specsavers National Book Awards winners have been announced.

BookTrust is hoping to raise more than £116,700 to buy books for 11,500 children via its 2018 Christmas appeal.

Guardian Faber has acquired a book about ‘ultra running’, one of the “toughest sports in the world”, by Adharanand Finn.

Andersen Press has signed a sales representation agreement with Walker Books and will bring its current deal with Penguin Random House to an end next year.

HarperCollins will next year publish The Roommates, “a compelling” standalone psychological thriller by Rachel Sargeant that gives Freshers’ Week “a dark twist”.

Faber has experienced an “astonishing” demand for Anna Burns’ Milkman since it won the Man Booker Prize, selling 63,288 copies through Nielsen BookScan and 250,000 B-format copies out of its warehouse. 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith and Philippe Sands are among the literary heavyweights leading Hay Festival Cartagena 2019's line-up in its "most ambitious year yet".

Sara Talbot is leaving Little, Brown to join Faber as sales director in February.

Jon White discusses the benefits automation could offer the publishing industry—and its far more than fiscal.

Honoring publishing courage in the face of oppression, nominations for the IPA Prix Voltaire Freedom To Publish will close on February 20. The post IPA Prix Voltaire: 2019 Nominations Open, Recognizing Valor in Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.