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With close to 30 speakers announced so far, the FutureBook Live conference in London on November 30 will have three strands again and will name award recipients in five categories. The post FutureBook Awards 2018 Shortlists Announced at Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

With close to 30 speakers announced so far, the FutureBook Live conference in London on November 30 will have three strands again and will name award recipients in five categories. The post FutureBook Awards 2018 Shortlists Announced at Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

A fundraising appeal has been launched to support Nosy Crow's 32-year-old rights manager Ola Gotkowska, who was diagnosed with the degenerative illness Motor Neurone Disease earlier this year.

Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired a three-book fantasy set on the high seas by debut author Bex Hogan.

Orenda Books has signed Paul Burston’s "disturbingly relevant" thriller The Closer I Get in a Frankfurt pre-empt, two-book deal.

Independent publisher World Editions has snapped up two works by Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, newly crowned winner of the inaugural Academy Prize, the 'Alternative Nobel'.

The philosopher Mary Midgley passed away at the age of 99 on Saturday, her family has announced.

Pan Macmillan has launched a significant pre-publication audiobook campaign to accompany the new novel in C J Sansom’s Shardlake series, Tombland.

Malorie Blackman, Alex T Smith, Abi Elphinstone and Sibéal Pounder are amongst the authors behind next year’s expanded line-up of £1 World Book Day (WBD) titles.

Sharon Bolton's The Craftsman trilogy has been optioned by the same producers of the hit TV series "Killing Eve", Sid Gentle Films.