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The UK's Wolfson History Prize gives its top honor this year to Halik Kochanski's 'Resistance,' on the World War II underground. The post Halik Kochanski’s ‘Resistance’ Wins the Wolfson History Prize in England appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Bob Mortimer has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for his “funny and clever” debut novel The Satsuma Complex, published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.   

Academic publisher De Gruyter’s new publishing services division, Paradigm Publishing Services, is partnering with independent press Boydell & Brewer to “open up new avenues” for the indie to reach “a global audience”.   

Megan Haslam from HarperCollins’ Mills & Boon and Francesca Best from PRH’s Transworld are joining indie Boldwood in January as editorial directors.

The BBC has announced that it will adapt Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and The Light, the third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy. 

Bloomsbury is launching its Carbon Literacy Training to boost understanding of what climate change means both locally and globally from an individual and professional perspective. 

Barbara Kingsolver’s ninth book, Demon Copperhead (Faber), has been named Hay Festival Book of the Year 2023. 

The industry has paid tribute to “one of our finest novelists and thinkers” A S Byatt, who died aged 87 on 16th November 2023.  

A pig will be named in honour of The Satsuma Complex, this year’s winner of the award for comic fictionA pig will be named after Bob Mortimer’s debut novel, The Satsuma Complex, as the comedian’s book has been announced as the winner of this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.Mortimer, who found fame…

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