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After digital and hybrid editions for three years, Singapore's Asian Festival of Children's Content goes fully physical again. The post In Singapore: the Asian Festival of Children’s Content Returns in May appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Geneva-based International Publishers Association is represented by speakers in a number of London Book Fair events. The post London Book Fair: International Publishers Association Events appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Bookseller’s annual Rising Stars list, now in its 13th year, is a celebration of the up-and-comers and future leaders of the British and Irish booktrade.

Penguin Business’ Ause Abdelhaq is joining the Pan division of Pan Macmillan as an editor on the non-fiction team.

Faber has reported “an excellent year" with top-line turnover coming in “well ahead of expectation” at £27.9m, topping the previous year’s £23.4m as the best in the company’s history. 

Transworld celebrated the launch of its new non-fiction imprint, Torva, on Thursday 30th March at Old Queen Street Café in Westminster, London.  

The new Booker Prize trophy has been named Iris after the Booker Prize Foundation launched a competition in January 2023 inviting the public to suggest names. 

Klaus Flugge, the founder of Andersen Press, has been named the recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 for being “a leading light in the world of children’s publishing and illustration".

31 March 1973: Larkin talks about his approach to life and poetry as well as his efforts in editing the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century VerseThe University of Hull is literally redbrick: squat, square blocks unrelieved by black painted window frames and meticulous green swards of grass you could not possibly set foot on. The…

Publisher pays tribute to ‘genius’ who was an ‘inspirational leader’Peter Usborne, the founder of the children’s books publisher Usborne and the co-founder of Private Eye magazine, has died aged 85, the publisher has announced.He died “unexpectedly but peacefully” surrounded by his family this morning, the Bookseller reported. Continue reading...