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Freelance illustrator Beth Suzanna has been named this year’s Hay Festival Illustrator in Residence, after a public submissions process which attracted more than 60 applicants from across the UK.

The 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist has been revealed, featuring authors Katherine Rundell and Maddie Mortimer among others

Figures from China’s book monitoring data company OpenBook show book sales made via short-form video showed a 43% increase in 2022, outstripping sales through physical bookshops.

The Liber program, emphasizing the Spanish book industry's business trends, returns this year to Madrid from Barcelona.  The post Spain’s Liber 2023 Book Fair Announces October Dates appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

This four-title shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award is to yield a winner by mid-March. The post England’s Young Writer of the Year Award Names Its Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Writer and junior doctor William Rayfet Hunter has won #Merky Books’ New Writers’ Prize 2023 for his “thrilling” and “fresh” novel People Like Us. 

HarperCollins has reached a ‘tentative’ agreement with its union in the US, which has been on strike for 66 business days over contracts and pay.  

HarperCollins global revenues shrank 14% to $531m (£439m) in the three months to December 2022 compared with the same period the year before, which the publisher said was driven by lower print and digital book sales primarily in the US market.

Elliot & Thompson has revealed its publicity plans for The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space will Change our World by Tim Marshall.

A new report from Literature Alliance Scotland has revealed that the average full-time income of a literary freelancer in Scotland is less than the Living Wage.