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The Booksellers Association (BA) has unveiled the initial plans for Independent Bookshop Week (IBW), with authors Maggie O’Farrell, Joseph Paterson and Reverend Richard Coles confirmed as ambassadors. 

Chefs and authors Andi Oliver, Nigella Lawson and Nadiya Hussain are among a packed roster announced for the British Library’s Food Season 2023. 

Macmillan Children’s Books has become master publisher of African children’s franchise Super Sema in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth countries. 

The Blair Partnership is preparing to open its doors virtually for the third year to students from secondary schools from across the UK to play the part of a literary agent within the publishing industry. 

The treatment of veteran employees working in publishing has been in the spotlight this week. 

The Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC) will no longer take place in July this year but November due to ongoing building works at London Olympia. 

The retailer had been trending on social media after accusations it did not stock works by Hannah Barnes and Victoria SmithWaterstones has said “there is no truth” in claims that some of its shops were refusing to sell copies of two books by gender-critical feminists.The book retailer was trending on Twitter earlier this week, after…

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