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4th Estate will publish Lauren Oyler's debut novel, exploring sex, feminism and politics as well as deception across online identities in the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's election.

The changing shape of the market for academic content, with Plan S on the horizon, means rethinking much of the publishing process, as Emerald’s Vicky Williams explains.

Authors Dorothy Koomson and Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will judge the £25,000 Royal Society Book Prize alongside Dr Shukry James Habib, Stephen McGann and Gwyneth Williams.

Clare Mackintosh talks writing about her latest book, described as "a novel about what happens after the unthinkable”.

Ian Rankin’s In a House of Lies (Orion) has defeated eight-week number one Pinch of Nom (Bluebird), soaring 38% in volume week on week to secure the crime author’s eighth overall week in the Official Top 50 number one spot. 

Wiley has recorded revenue of $1.8bn (£1.42bn) for the 12 months to end April 2019, a 0.2% lift on last year’s figures.

Charco Press has snapped up rights to Argentinian crime writer Claudia Piñeiro’s novel, Elena Sabe, with plans to reposition her as a fiction writer.

​The All Party Parliamentary Writers Group (APWG) has called for "immediate action to reverse steep decline in writers’ incomes", following its investigation into author earnings. 

Arts University Bournemouth graduate Jake Alexander has won this year's Macmillan Prize for Illustration for his picture book examining systemic racism.

Publisher’s review of How They Rule the World, accused of prejudice in its coverage of the Rothschilds, finds book ‘robust’ but not antisemiticPenguin has undertaken a “thorough” review of one of its books, Spanish colonel Pedro Baños’s How They Rule the World, after allegations of antisemitism were made against its author. The publisher concluded that…