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Biographer Hermione Lee, British Library chief executive Roly Keating and authors Catherine Belton, Francesca Simon and Dara McAnulty are among those to have been recognised in King Charles’ first New Year’s Honours list. 

Hachette Children’s Group has announced it will hold its third virtual open day to find new picture book writers and illustrators from the North of England, Scotland and Ireland. 

Pottermore, the global digital publisher for J K Rowling’s Wizarding World, saw profits drop by 40% last year, coming off a lockdown sales bounce.

Writer Jenny Colgan remembers the author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil, who has died aged 91, a supreme operator who understood how to have a successful literary career• Fay Weldon obituaryI have worked with a lot of writers on the festival circuit, most of them delightful – but I have never…

We’ve previously explored what I called “the end of the trade publishing concept”, which stems from the now wide-open opportunity to publish available to anybody with a computer and something to deliver as a book. It feels like we may have reached a new benchmark: admittedly a very fuzzy one. But it looks like it…

Derby Book Festival launched its Flash Fiction Writing Competition, open to adults and children, on 4th January, with entrants invited to submit a story or poem of up to 50 words on the subject of ‘Light’. 

“The Chemistry of Death”, an adaptation of author Simon Beckett’s first two novels, has been optioned by Paramount and will be available to watch on Paramount+ later this month.

Anticipation of a new animated adaptation of Liu Cixin's trilogy drove 'The Three-Body Problem' back to the top of China's charts. The post China Bestsellers in November: Screening ‘The Three-Body Problem’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who worked as a rights co-ordinator at Simon & Schuster UK accused of stealing authors’ manuscripts, is expected to plead guilty to wire fraud this week. 

Prince Harry’s first TV interview for his upcoming memoir Spare (Transworld) will be broadcast on ITV at 9 p.m. on 8th January, two days before publication.