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Stressing its search for innovative projects in higher education and specialist installations, Scotland's new SLIC fund is open for proposals. The post Scotland’s New £30,000 SLIC Fund Backs ‘Pioneering Library Projects’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Edinburgh Book Festival is one of four organisations to have been awarded a grant from the Mo Siewcharran Fund in its latest round. 

Hannah Weatherill has been appointed head of media at Penguin Random House, covering the role for the duration of Jenna Brown’s maternity leave. 

The much-anticipated account of the troubled prince’s life has broken publisher’s previous record for first-day sales in the UK, US and CanadaPrince Harry’s memoir sold 1,430,000 copies on its first day on sale in the US, Canada and the UK combined, according to the book’s publisher Penguin Random House (PRH).Spare became the UK’s fastest-selling nonfiction…

A community bookshop in Merseyside has been named National Book Tokens Newcomer of the Year 2023.

The 2022 Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation issues a joint award to translator Robin Moger and the late Humphrey Davies. The post Translators Moger, Davies Win England’s Banipal Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Stephen Esson, group publishing operations director at Penguin Random House UK, is set to retire after 37 years at the company at the end of March.

Prince Harry’s memoir Spare has sold 400,000 copies across hardback, e-book and audio formats in the UK on its first day of publication, according to publisher Transworld.

Bloomsbury Lifestyle has made two appointments to newly created roles with a view to expanding its commissioning.

First-day sales of Prince Harry's Spare in US and Canada top one million, says PRH