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The prize-winning novelist’s lyrics, written for US jazz singer Stacey Kent, will be published with illustrations next MarchA collection of lyrics written by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro for the American jazz singer Stacey Kent is due to be published next year.“I’ve built a reputation over the years as a writer of stories, but I started…

Winchester Poetry Festival has unveiled a “dynamic” programme for 2023 featuring the likes of award-winning Daljit Nagra; Welsh poet and activist Menna Elfyn; performance poet Luke Wright and more. 

Mariajo Ilustrajo has been announced as the winner of the  £5,000 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting and promising newcomer to picture book illustration for her book Flooded (Frances Lincoln Books).

A new charity, Inclusive Books for Children (IBC), has launched and announced a set of inaugural awards worth £30,000 for authors and illustrators whose books demonstrate inclusivity. 

Publishing figures defend Stranger Things star’s book, Nineteen Steps, after this week’s publication ignites criticism on social mediaThe publication of Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel has reignited a debate over ghostwritten celebrity books.Brown’s Nineteen Steps, inspired by her grandmother’s experience of the 1943 Bethnal Green tube disaster, was ghostwritten by author Kathleen…

Six books, including ones by Janice Hallett, Dinah Jefferies and Greg Hurwitz, have been chosen as Richard and Judy picks for the autumn Book Club, exclusive to W H Smith.

Alex Russell has been promoted from senior editor to senior commissioning editor at Jonathan Cape. He will acquire fiction and select non-fiction in addition to leading the imprint’s paperback publishing.

Madeleine O’Shea has been appointed to the newly created role of publishing director at Mantle.

Established in 2018, the US National Book Awards' newest category, Translated Literature, this year drew 154 submissions. The post US National Book Awards 2023 Longlist: Translation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The books on the Young People's Literature longlist are the first cohort of five categories named this week by the US National Book Awards. The post US National Book Awards Longlist: Young People’s Literature appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.