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High street retailer W H Smith has reported a 28% increase in group revenue compared to 2022, driven by the Travel business, which was up 42%. 

Catherine Evans and Jurcell Virginia have launched a new publishing company, Inkspot, and will be hosting a launch event in Piccadilly, London on Tuesday 26th September, to celebrate the publication of its first two titles.

My publisher and friend, Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, who has died aged 72, was a poet, singer, feminist, academic, animal lover and political activist, who had a fierce passion for life and a strong sense of justice.In 2016, at the age of 65, Consuelo retired from the Open University, where she had lectured in social sciences and…

My author spouse never let me read anything he wrote before it was finished. But after his death from cancer, I found myself choosing funeral flowers at the same time as covers for his memoir, Word MonkeyIt is strange to be married to an author. At least, it was to me. I inhabited a corporate…

Over half of eight to 18-year-olds said they do not enjoy reading in their free time.

German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar will open the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse on Tuesday 17th October 2023, the organisers have announced.

Penguin Random House UK has announced the nine writers – selected from 1,300 applicants –  joining the sixth WriteNow cohort. 

B T Batsford has acquired Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers and its subsidiary Scala Arts Publishers Inc for an undisclosed sum, in a move Batsford describes as “bringing together two companies with long and distinguished publishing histories".

Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced plans to transform its journal portfolio to open access by 2028 through a Subscribe to Open programme.

Six books spanning topics from the plague in Europe to a history of books and the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain have been shortlisted for the £50,000 Wolfson History Prize.