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‘More African’ covers. Adding racist characters. As authors and industry insiders share their experiences, readers can see how the books they read are changed by white publishersPublishing is in the middle of a reckoning. In the weeks since the death of George Floyd, as black authors topped UK books charts for the first time, and…

HarperCollins will no longer publish the historian and Canterbury Christ Church University terminates his role after he said ‘slavery was not genocide’HarperCollins has dropped David Starkey as an author, saying that the racist views the bestselling historian expressed in a recent interview were “abhorrent”.On Thursday, Starkey told the rightwing commentator Darren Grimes that “slavery was…

Penguin Business has pre-empted Permission to Speak by Samara Bay, a dialect and speech coach in Hollywood. 

Children's independent Fisherton Press will publish We Love the NHS on July 5th 2020, the 72nd birthday of the NHS. 

Caroline Wright has praised the education publishing sector for "adapting since day one" to support schools and students learning from home during the coronavirus lockdown. 

Yale University Press will publish the English translation of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s The Virus in the Age of Madness. 

Fourteen bookshops across London, Bucks and Oxfordshire have joined forces to collect donations of used children's books to be gifted to those in need. 

Taylor Jenkins Reid has been awarded the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for her sixth novel, Daisy Jones and the Six (Arrow). 

Niamh Campbell has been awarded the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her "original and touching" piece "Love Many".

Derek Owusu has won the Desmond Elliott Prize for his “transcendent” novel-in-verse That Reminds Me (#Merky Books).