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Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) has illuminated the Amazon Charts a week ahead of publication, with the final title in the Cromwell trilogy rising 10 places to claim the Most-Sold: Fiction number one.

London Book Fair has been cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, hours after major publishers said they would not attend.

Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has won Liz Kessler's “powerful” Holocaust novel Chasing the Light at auction. 

Mirror Books will publish new memoir about the only living sisters to have signed the Official Secrets Act during the Second World War. 

The book trade has expressed disappointment at the cancellation of the London Book Fair but accepted that it was the right call, as the UK works on containment of the coronavirus outbreak.

Wimbledon BookFest has been forced to cancel its World Book Day event featuring authors Sita Brachmachari, Konnie Huq and Karyn Parsons, because of a local coronavirus case. 

ViacomCBS is planning to sell Simon & Schuster, it was announced today (4th March). 

The Duchess of Cornwall, Dermot O'Leary and Cressida Cowell will lead celebrations for World Book Day 2020 today (Thursday 5th March).

After an eight-year gap and more pre-orders than Atwood, readers are excited to get hold of new Hilary Mantel book – even while knowing how it ends.

Simon & Schuster's chief Carolyn Reidy tells the staff in a memo that its parent company, ViacomCBS, will be exploring potential sales of the Big Five publishing house. The post Reidy to Staff: ViacomCBS Is Looking to Sell Simon & Schuster appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.