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The London Book Fair will launch a Schools Programme in partnership with the National Literacy Trust this year. The programme will engage with 80 students from disadvantaged backgrounds aged 13-16.

Kathryn Jewitt (née Smith), founding member of children’s publisher Townhouse, died unexpectedly on 22nd March, aged 55.

After a short illness, author and antiques expert Judith Miller died over Easter weekend 2023. 

Andrew Boughton has been appointed chief operating officer of United Independent Distributors (UID), and its group companies, Eurospan, Marston Book Services and Orca Book Services, effective 31st March 2023. 

Stars of the television and stage adaptations of Dame Hilary Mantel DBE’s Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate) will be among the readers celebrating the life of the author, who died last September aged 70, at a special event at Southwark Cathedral on Thursday 20th April.

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’Granta magazine’s Best of British Novelists list, which hails the literary stars of the future, has this year expanded to include writers who “regard this country as their home”…

With a £2,000 purse for the winner, four shortlistees are named by the regionally specific Highland Book Prize. The post Scotland’s Highland Book Prize Names Its Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

My mother, Angela Myers, who has died aged 85, was a teacher, a lay preacher in the Church of England, a writer and an avid reader of books.Born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and brought up mainly in Liverpool, Angela was the youngest of four children of Harold Mellersh, a civil servant, author and survivor of the…

Praised for his engagement in the profession and promotion of translation, Daniel Hahn is Words Without Borders' 2023 Ottaway laureate. The post British Translator-Author Daniel Hahn To Receive the Ottaway Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Following the recent retirement of Leigh Butler and Hal Fessenden, Allison Dobson, president of Penguin Publishing Group in the US, has announced organisational changes to the company’s PPG subsidiary rights department.