Trade

A memorial for the publisher Claudio López de Lamadrid will be held at the London Book Fair.

Coronet has acquired the rights to the final book in Graham Hancock’s non-fiction trilogy, four years after the publication of Magicians of the Gods. 

Independent bookseller Topping & Company will open a new bookshop in central Edinburgh in 2019, with the Topping family saying the shop will be “the largest independent bookshop to open in the country for decades”.

Kevin Duffy, publisher at Hebden Bridge-based Bluemoose Books, has acquired world rights to the next two books from Dublin writer Ronan Hession.

New Writing North, the literature development agency for the North of England, has released its list of ‘12 new books by northern writers you must read in 2019’, part of the Read Regional campaign that it began in 2008.

Female writers and first-time authors dominate the longlist for the 2019 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize, worth £30,000.

Margaret Atwood has revealed the cover for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. 

Interweaving stories from her own life with historical examples, Clare Hunter’s non-fiction début reframes needle-work as a powerful and political medium.

The Jaipur Bookmark professional publishing program this year had Norway as its Country Partner and a visit from the Frankfurter Buchmesse's Juergen Boos. The post Issues and Debate at India’s 2019 Jaipur Bookmark Program: Freedom to Publish appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Festival directors, journalists, authors, broadcasters, editors, publishers, booksellers, illustrators, translators, educators, and literary agents are among the big cohort of judges for the 2019 'Nibbies.' The post British Book Awards: More Than 65 Judges for 2019 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.