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Vicki Jarrett, Jane Rawson and Yoko Ogawa are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Kitschies, honouring the best in speculative and fantastic fiction.

Welbeck has announced a series of deals to distribute its titles in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Sam Brace will step up from her role as publishing associate to publisher at Agora Books, PFD’s digital-first publishing imprint.

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has unveiled this year’s longlist after "lively debates" among the judges.

Tamara Zimet is joining the Edinburgh International Book Festival as deputy programme director. 

Journalist and "The High Low" podcaster Pandora Sykes will tour the UK in July to celebrate the publication of her debut book, How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right?, in a collaboration between events organiser Fane and publisher Hutchinson.

John Murray publisher Mark Richards is co-founding a new publishing company with Diana Broccardo, commercial director of Profile Books, called Swift Press.

Lisa Taddeo, Tayari Jones and David Mitchell are among the authors appearing at the Southbank Centre for its Summer Literature Season.

Lady Gaga’s foundation has signed a global deal with Macmillan for a “vital” book of inspirational stories by young people and “notes of empowerment” from the singer herself.

The film director’s book Apropos of Nothing was dropped by its US publisher after staff walkouts, but the French publisher says ‘Allen is not Roman Polanski’Woody Allen’s controversial memoir will still be published in France despite its US publisher dropping it, with his French publisher saying that the film director is “not Roman Polanski” and…